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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the predictive power of all of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123605
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124463
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Moving to a Job: The Role of Home Equity, Debt, and Access to Credit
Demyanyk, Yuliya; Hryshko, Dmytro; Luengo-Prado, Maria Jose - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
local unemployment growth is high---overall, negative home equity is not an important barrier to labor mobility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083450
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The 'Names Game': Harnessing Inventors Patent Data for Economic Research
Melamed, Ran; Shiff, Gil; Trajtenberg, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
inventors across time and space, and thus study the causes and consequences of their mobility across countries, regions, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661738
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Labour Mobility During Transition: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In this paper, I analyse the development of inter-regional mobility in the Czech Republic during the transition from … central planning to a market economy. I show that while the intensity of migration is low and has even fallen during the … transition, regional disparities in unemployment rates and earnings have increased. More importantly, labour mobility has little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136748
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Migration and the Option Value of Waiting
Burda, Michael C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
Migration is an investment: it involves fixed, unrecoverable costs and uncertain future returns. If migration can be … postponed, the option value of doing so may have positive value. Migration may not occur for a range of individuals who would … otherwise migrate on a net present value basis. This paper models the migration decision using ideas developed by Pindyck (1991 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067485
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Trust and Cheating
Butler, Jeff; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083918
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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development
Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Women’s empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083373
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The Right Amount of Trust
Butler, Jeff; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528520
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123619