. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …

This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the … cannot be explained by differences in preferences. In contrast, this study identifies a strong relationship between answers … to survey questions about time and risk preferences and consumption and saving behaviors. This paper uses data on …

preference parameters: time, risk, and social preferences, and risk perception biases. We pay special attention to predictors …

personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause important life outcomes such as wages, health, and longevity. Skills … analysis of human differences by providing anchored measures of economic preferences and studying their links to personality … skills and preferences required to characterize essential differences. …

enlarge the scope for upward comparisons and, in the presence of reference-dependent preferences, to increase willingness to …

We study the heritability of risk, uncertainty, and time preferences using a field experiment with a large sample of … study to elicit all three types of preferences for the same individual. Compared to previous studies, we find a greater role … of genes in explaining risk and uncertainty preferences, and of the shared familial environment in explaining time …