experiment. To identify the causes of risk taking by groups, we compare individual to group decisions in three scenarios. The … in 100% of the cases where outstanding individuals are risk averse, while group polarization appears to be more likely … towards outstanding risk loving subjects. Intra-group payoff conflict shifts these likelihoods, supporting the importance of …

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large … adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have the same risk tolerance as adolescents from non-separated families …. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …