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 … attitudes are only weak predictors of field behavior. -- experiments with children and adolescents ; risk ; ambiguity ; time …

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 …

about risk and time preferences, indicating a high potential for DOSE in future research. …

Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real …

individual-level risk and time preferences are also more accurate, more stable over time, and faster to administer in a large … relationship between risk aversion and cognitive ability than other elicitation techniques. DOSE thus provides a flexible procedure …

A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are therefore vulnerable to financial shocks. This … link to a personal web page where they can start or adjust an automatic savings plan. However, analyzing detailed bank data …, we find no treatment effect on actual savings, neither in the short run nor in the long run. Our null findings are quite …

We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk …, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial literacy has significant short-term and longer-term effects on risk … subjects more patient, less present-biased, and slightly more risk-averse. Our finding that the intervention changes economic …