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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...
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2009
This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000392
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Children Do Not Behave Like Adults: Gender Gaps in Performance and Risk Taking within a Random Social Context in the High-StakesGame Shows Jeopardy and Junior Jeopardy
Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Lindquist, Gabriella Sjögren - CESifo - 2014
differently sensitive to social context. While women wager more, girls perform worse and employ inferior wagering strategies when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736749
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
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Happiness as a Driver of Risk-Avoiding Behavior
Goudie, Robert J. B.; Mukherjee, Sach; Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De - CESifo - 2011
Understanding the reasons why individuals take risks, particularly unnecessary risks, remains an important question in economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300,000 Americans, we demonstrate that happier individuals...
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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2009
This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers’ pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we employ an experimental design that first measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013946
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The Effects of International Financial Integration in a Model with Heterogeneous Firms and Credit Frictions
Clemens, Christiane; Heinemann, Maik - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the consequences of international financial integration in a two–sector heterogeneous–agent dynamic general equilibrium model of occupational choice with financial constraints and idiosyncratic risks. We discuss the macroeconomic and distributional effects of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010703423
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Great Expectations: The Determinants of Female University Enrolment in Europe
Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara - CESifo - 2011
17-21 age group drawn from EU-Silc, available for the years 2004-2008. From the same survey we construct context … on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two … changes in the surrounding context. We find that the share of working women with children below 5 and the share of women with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914273
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Gender Differences in Experimental Wage Negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - CESifo - 2012
We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face-to-face alternating-offers wage bargaining. Our results suggest that male players are able to obtain better bargaining outcomes than female players. Male employees get higher wages than...
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Money Matters - Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training
Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2009
This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181564