Table 3:
Regressions
| (1) Dictator | (2) Dictator | (3) Efficiency | (4) Efficiency | (5) Luck | (6) Luck | (7) Merit | (8) Merit | (9) M+L | (10) M+L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preschool | 0.01 (0.04) | 0.01 (0.04) | 0.03 (0.05) | 0.02 (0.05) | −0.11** (0.05) | −0.10* (0.05) | −0.06 (0.04) | −0.06 (0.04) | −0.09** (0.04) | −0.08** (0.04) |
| Parent Academy | 0.03 (0.04) | 0.03 (0.04) | 0.12** (0.05) | 0.11** (0.05) | −0.05 (0.05) | −0.04 (0.05) | 0.02 (0.04) | 0.02 (0.04) | −0.02 (0.04) | −0.01 (0.04) |
| Age | −0.10 (0.17) | −0.09 (0.29) | −0.07 (0.24) | −0.09 (0.23) | −0.08 (0.23) | |||||
| Female | 0.01 (0.04) | 0.05 (0.04) | −0.00 (0.04) | 0.06* (0.03) | 0.03 (0.03) | |||||
| Black | 0.16*** (0.06) | 0.27*** (0.09) | 0.00 (0.10) | 0.05 (0.08) | 0.03 (0.07) | |||||
| Hispanic | 0.12** (0.05) | 0.17** (0.08) | −0.01 (0.08) | 0.05 (0.07) | 0.02 (0.07) | |||||
| Constant | 0.20*** (0.05) | 0.58* (0.31) | 0.24*** (0.06) | 0.41 (0.39) | 0.33*** (0.06) | 1.18*** (0.39) | 0.28*** (0.05) | 0.70** (0.32) | 0.31*** (0.05) | 0.95*** (0.32) |
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| Observations | 301 | 301 | 301 | 301 | 298 | 298 | 301 | 301 | 297 | 297 |
| R2 | 0.164 | 0.188 | 0.109 | 0.148 | 0.125 | 0.151 | 0.172 | 0.195 | 0.160 | 0.189 |
| p-value PS=PA | 0.664 | 0.712 | 0.116 | 0.099 | 0.239 | 0.281 | 0.056 | 0.062 | 0.083 | 0.094 |
| p-value PS=PA=0 | 0.796 | 0.777 | 0.078 | 0.077 | 0.111 | 0.162 | 0.137 | 0.147 | 0.087 | 0.101 |
Note: The table reports ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions of a participant’s chosen level of inequality in the four experiments and for the merit and luck experiments combined. “Preschool” (PS) is a dummy variable taking the value one if the child was in the Preschool group and “Parent Academy” (PA) is a dummy variable taking the value one if the child was in the Parent Academy group. “Age” is the child’s average age in years; “Female” is a dummy for the child being a girl; “Black” and “Hispanic” are dummies for the child belonging to each of these categories. Included, but not reported, are controls for the time of day when the child took part in the experiment and experimenter fixed effects. Participation was voluntary and some children did not complete all of the experiments: one child did not complete the merit experiments, four children did not complete the luck experiment, one child did not complete the dictator experiment and one child did not complete the efficiency experiment. Standard errors in parentheses
p < 0.1
p < 0.05
p < 0.01.