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Show what you risk - norms for risk taking

Grimm, Stefan - 2018

choices being observed, compared to anonymity of choices, on risk taking in a laboratory experiment. I relate participants … strong evidence for gender-specific norms in risk taking. While these explain part of the existing gender gap in risk taking …

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Parenthood and risk preferences

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 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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Decision-making traits and states as determinants of risky choices

Gärtner, Manja; Tinghög, Gustav; Västfjäll, Daniel - 2019

experiment with a large representative sample (N = 1,832), we vary whether risky choices are induced to be based on either …

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Risk, time pressure, and selection effects

Kocher, Martin; Schindler, David; Trautmann, Stefan T.; … - 2018

Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time pressure affects decisions, and how to detect individual heterogeneity in the ability to successfully cope with time pressure. In the context of risky decisions, we ask whether a...

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How do different compensation schemes and loss experience affect insurance decisions? : experimental evidence from two independent and heterogeneous samples

Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2020

experiment with a student subject pool in Germany. In addition, we replicate the experiment as an online experiment with citizens … of flood-prone areas in the city of Dornbirn (Austria). The experiment reflects two possible designs of governmental …

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Beliefs and actions in the trust game : creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect

Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Huck, Steffen; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2012

In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's belief about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. A growing number of surveys and experiments ask participants to state beliefs explicitly but little is known about the causal relation between beliefs and...

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Gender differences in tournament choices : risk preferences, overconfidence or competitiveness?

Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017

. While part of this effect may be explained by gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence, previous studies have … attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result … experimental design. In contrast to the literature, our results imply that the whole gender gap is driven by risk attitudes and …

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Becoming sensitive: males' risk and time preferences after the 2008 financial crisis

Jetter, Michael; Magnusson, Leandro M.; Roth, Sebastian - 2020

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Bargaining and time preferences : an experimental study

Kim, Jeongbin; Lim, Wooyoung; Schweighofer-Kodritsch, … - 2020

We generalize the Rubinstein (1982) bargaining model by disentangling payoff delay from bargaining delay. We show that our extension is isomorphic to generalized discounting with dynamic consistency and characterize the unique equilibrium. Using a novel experimental design to control for various...

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Stated and revealed heterogeneous risk preferences in educational choice

Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - 2014

Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...

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