We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity …

examine whether this is indeed the case for laboratory elicitations of time preference. In other words, is savings behavior … subjects’ savings, and with evidence of a substantial placebo effects with respect to another intervention based on sugared …

contribution, the paper extends the smooth ambiguity model by providing a threefold disentanglement between, risk aversion … assumption of (intertemporal) risk neutrality reduces the growth effect in social discounting and significantly amplifies the … importance of risk and correlation. Second, debate and models largely overlook the difference in attitude with respect to risk …

individuals are found to be more risk averse, in agreement with common findings. Unlike previous studies that ascribed gender … differences in risk attitudes solely to differences in the degree utility curvature, however, our results show that this finding …

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 … with greater risk aversion, and more pronounced impatience. These relationships are statistically and economically …

risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the … reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount rates, risk aversion, and probability weighting and assess the stability of … largely uncorrelated with decisions in other important life domains involving intertemporal trade-offs and risk. …