Coordination games played by children and teenagers: On the influence of age, group size and incentives

DOI

This dataset contains the replication package for the paper "Coordination games played by children and teenagers: On the influence of age, group size and incentives". Efficient coordination is a major source of efficiency gains. We study in an experimental coordination game with 727 children and teenagers, aged 9 to 18 years, the strategies played in pre-adulthood. We find no robust age effects in the aggregate, but see that smaller group sizes and larger incentives increase the likelihood of choosing the efficient strategy. Beliefs play an important role as well, as subjects are more likely to play the efficient strategy when they expect others to do so as well. Our results are robust to controlling for individual risk-, time-, and social preferences.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17617/3.1H6QYT
Metadata Access https://edmond.mpg.de/api/datasets/export?exporter=dataverse_json&persistentId=doi:10.17617/3.1H6QYT
Provenance
Creator Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, Claudia
Publisher Edmond
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Austrian Central Bank; University of Cologne
OpenAccess true
Contact sutter(at)coll.mpg.de
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Version 2
Discipline Other