Development of inequity aversion in argentine children in different SES populations

Abstract

Inequity aversion, which can be categorized into disadvantageous inequity aversion and advan-tageous inequity aversion, does not develop in the same way across different societies and cul-tures. In the current study, we evaluated inequity aversion using the "inequity game" amongArgentine children from two different populations: a low socioeconomic status (SES) group(n = 168) and a middle socioeconomic status group (n = 129). Middle-SES children showedstronger signs of disadvantageous inequity aversion and showed signs from an earlier age thanlow-SES children, but neither group showed advantageous inequity aversion. On the other hand,girls tended to manifest greater levels of advantageous inequity aversion than boys, while boysmanifested greater disadvantageous inequity aversion than girls. These results indicate that thephenomenon of inequity aversion not only varies between different cultures and countries butalso manifests differently within the same society.