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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2008

preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs about the world, such as trust. This paper provides evidence on the three …

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Homo reciprocans: survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...

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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about … by parents in terms of risk attitudes. Interestingly, for trust there is no impact of family size or birth order. There … are similar to parents in terms of risk are similar in terms of trust. We find that the transmission from parents to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268066