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Coordination games played by children and teenagers : on the influence of age, group size and incentives

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, … - 2024

Efficient coordination is a major source of efficiency gains. We study in an experimental coordination game with 718 children and teenagers, aged 9 to 18 years, the strategies played in pre-adulthood. We find no robust age effects in the aggregate, but see that smaller group sizes and larger...

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Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age ? : an experiment in Austria and Sweden

Martinsson, Peter; Nordblom, Katarina; … - 2010

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Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age : an experiment in Austria and Sweden

Martinsson, Peter; Nordblom, Katarina; … - 2010

. -- social preferences ; children ; adolescents ; distributional experiment ; Austria ; Sweden …

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Knowledge and beliefs about behavioral biases

Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; Steinbacher, Teresa - 2024

In this study we explore the knowledge and beliefs regarding behavioral biases among behavioral scientists, financial … professionals, and the general population. We investigate knowledge about ten prominent biases and collect beliefs about the … knowledge levels of each of these subject pools by conducting an online survey with 547 participants. We find that knowledge …

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Financial literacy, risk and time preferences : results from a randomized educational intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2020 - This version: 1 August 2020

We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find that...

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Age effects in monetary valuation of mortality risks : the relevance of individual risk exposure

Leiter, Andrea M. - 2008

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Age effects in monetary valuation of mortality risks : the relevance of individual risk exposure

Leiter, Andrea M. - 2008

It is still an ongoing discussion whether benefits resulting from reduced mortality risk should be valuated differently, depending on the age of the beneficiaries. Theory suggests that the influence of age on the value of statistical life (VSL), which is a monetary measure for reduced/prevented...

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Regional development in advanced countries : a within-country application of the Human Development Index for Austria

Schrott, Lukas; Gächter, Martin; Theurl, Engelbert - 2012

Since its implementation in 1990 the human development index (HDI), the flagship indicator of multidimensional development, has attracted a great deal of attention and critics in academic, political and media circles. It initiated a new stage in the discussion of appropriate indicators to...

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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes

Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017

We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment e.ects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...

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