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Willingness to take risk: The role of risk conception and optimism

Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2019

We show that the disposition to focus on favorable or unfavorable outcomes of risky situations affects willingness to take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of...

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Thinking about tomorrow? Predicting experimental choice behavior and life outcomes from a survey measure of present bias

Dovern-Pinger, Pia Rosina - 2017

Using a representative sample of the German adult population, this paper investigates the extent to which a survey measure of present bias predicts present-biased choice behavior in incentive-compatible experiments and real-world outcomes related to in-vestments in financial assets and human...

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Validating an ultra-short survey measure of patience

Vischer, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2012

This study presents results of the validation of an ultra-short survey measure of patience included in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Survey responses predict intertemporal choice behavior in incentive-compatible decisions in a representative sample of the German adult population.

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...

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Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination

Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what...

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

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Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination

Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

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Math, girls and socialism

Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018

This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality … in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender norms. We focus on one of the most … resilient and pervasive gender gaps in modern societies: mathematics. Using the German division as a natural experiment, we show …

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Gender, Transnational Networks and Remittances: Evidence from Germany

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2010

and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio …

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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010

This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self …

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