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Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....

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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities

Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn; Vlachos, Jonas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between parents and sons, using population-wide enlistment data. Conscripts are evaluated at the same age and with comparable methods across cohorts, and we correct for measurement error bias in fathers’...

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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...

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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...

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Providing financial education: a general equilibrium approach

Padula, Mario; Pettinicchi, Yuri - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Since the early 2000s, the importance of financial literacy for safe financial behaviors has increased in public debate and has been the motivation for several national and international institutions to launch and promote financial education initiatives. Although discussion on the effects of...

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

Modin, Bitte; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

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IQ, Social Mobility and Growth

Hassler, John; Mora, Rodríguez; Vicente, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

depends on the relative award the market assigns to intelligence versus other individual merits, which will also influence … equilibrium in the labour market implies that the reward to entrepreneurs depends more on social assets than on intelligence. This …

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Defense R&D in the Anti-Terrorist Era

Trajtenberg, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

prominently, commanding 30% of current defense R&D spending, versus just about 13% for intelligence and anti-terrorism. The second … security. Intelligence emerges as the key aspect of the war against terrorism and, accordingly, R&D aimed at providing advanced … technological means for intelligence is viewed as the cornerstone of defense R&D. This entails developing computerized sensory …

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