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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Booth, Alison L.; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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....

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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is...

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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 C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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...

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Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...

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Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam

Nguyen, Quang; Villeval, Marie Claire; Xu, Hui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...

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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness

Hao, Li; Houser, Daniel; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one's ability to succeed in an uncertain and …

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Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental design was aimed at disentangling gender...

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 generation.

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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...

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