Group Decision Making Under Risk: An Experiment with Student Couples

In an experiment, we study risk-taking of cohabitating student couples, finding that couples' decisions are closer to risk-neutrality than single partners' decisions. This finding is similar to earlier experiments with randomly assigned groups, corroborating external validity of earlier results.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	He, Haoran ; Martinsson, Peter ; Sutter, Matthias
Publisher:	Innsbruck : University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)
Subject:	Gruppenentscheidung \| Risikopräferenz \| Test \| China \| Risk experiment \| Student couples \| Group decision making

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Series:	Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; 2011-27
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	74514537X [GVK] hdl:10419/73546 [Handle] RePEc:inn:wpaper:2011-27 [RePEc]
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior
Source:	EconStor

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