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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015

We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We measure a family's SES by the mother's and...

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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530593

Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2017

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...

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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019

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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children’s IQ and economic preferences

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2017

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk Preference : Evidence from Parental Earthquake Experiences

Chang, Dongfeng; Liu, Qiannan; Liu, Wanlin; Zhang, Peng - 2023

This paper provides the first empirical analysis on whether and how intergenerational transmission affects children's risk preferences by exploiting exogenous variation in parents' risk preferences. We utilize parents' experiences to earthquakes---one of the most unpredictable natural...

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Who is cheating? : the role of attendants, risk aversion, and affluence

Hübler, Olaf; Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2018

This research integrates a standard "cheating" experiment into a broad household survey and finds relationships between … individual characteristics and cheating behavior. We allow for attendance of others at the cheating experiment, addressing the …, while affluence makes cheating costly, as it allows behaving honestly. The underlying experiment in rural Thailand …

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Individual risk attitudes : new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey

Dohmen, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about … the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a representative … stability ; experimental validation ; fiel experiment ; SOEP ; gender differences ; age ; height ; subjective well-being …

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Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab : Task or Ask? An Empirical Comparison

Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik - 2011

This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes - the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (forthcoming) - with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over...

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Stereotypes and Risk Attitudes : Evidence from the Lab and the Field

Leuermann, Andrea - 2012

paper, we deploy an artefactual field experiment and study whether subjects - non-professionals and - financial …

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