Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip J.; Johnson, … - 2014
Using a field experiment eliciting the risk preferences of 490 9th and 11th grade students from a variety of school … considered by economists (gender, ethnicity, height, and parental education) we also evaluate cognitive (proxied by math literacy … tall and nonwhites individuals are more risk tolerant. Next, the impact of school characteristics on the development of …