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Akgüç, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano; … - 2015

To contribute to a scarce literature, in particular for developing and emerging economies, we study the nature of measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC...

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...

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Economic preferences and attitudes of the unemployed : are natives and second generation migrants alike?

Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010

In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second...

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: a large-scale experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020

Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...

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Learning efficiency of economics students

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 1998

Using a stochastic frontier approach this paper evaluates the effects of substantial changes in the teaching material … on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning … efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance and of continuous preparation of the material. …

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