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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test …, sports and leisure, career, and health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but … offenses, portfolio choice, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068645
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Individual risk attitudes: new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey
Dohmen, Thomas - 2005
take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to parental education and height. We test … leisure, career, and health - the paper studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but imperfect …, portfolio choice, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the predictive power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267371
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2005
take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test …, sports and leisure, career, and health – the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but … offenses, portfolio choice, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260868
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Individual risk attitudes : new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey
Dohmen, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to parental education and height. We test … and leisure, career, and health -- the paper studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but … stability ; experimental validation ; fiel experiment ; SOEP ; gender differences ; age ; height ; subjective well-being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085747
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Individual Risk Attitudes : New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2021
take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test …, sports and leisure, career, and health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but … offenses, portfolio choice, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318309
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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896235
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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2014
We summarise our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see if single-sex classes within coeducational environments modify studentsf risk]taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth, Cardona]Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352367
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Gender differences in risk aversion: Do single-sex environments affect their development?
Booth, Alison; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - 2011
Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282545
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2013
Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risktaking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763637
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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - CESifo - 2014
We summarise our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see if single-sex classes within coeducational environments modify studentsf risk]taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth, Cardona]Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are first]year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877772