predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use … patterns. Our findings indicate that risk-loving and skilled people are more mobile over longer distances because they are more … distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

-correlated returns. Any such project stabilizes the aggregate proceeds. Therefore, given widespread risk exposure and aversion, that …

-stakes game, and controlling for performance differences, there is no gender gap in risk-taking among girls and boys in contrast … with adults, and, while girls take more risk than women, boys take less risk than men. We also find that female behavior is …

This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes - the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery … (a) their within-subject stability over time (one year) and (b) their correlation with actual risk-taking behaviour in … correlations with a Big Five personality measure and is correlated with actual risk-taking behaviour. The results suggest that the …

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of … convergence with regard to individuals’ trust and risk, as well as perceived fairness and cooperativeness. Our hypotheses are … than by reputation. Moreover, East Germans are found to be more risk loving than West Germans. In contrast to trust and …

This study explores people’s risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster … is consistent with prospect theory predictions of the adoption of a risk-seeking attitude after a loss. …

natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to commit crimes. We … that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

This paper exploits a large dataset of replications of the Holt and Laury (2002) risk elicitation task to study a … possible outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes. There is a strong consensus view in the … outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. We find no evidence that the likelihood of reporting about gender …

risk factors are correlated with each other and the degree of dependence individual firms have to the different types of … risk factors. Using a global vector autoregressive macroeconometric model accounting for about 80% of world output, we … propose a model for exploring credit risk diversification across industry sectors and across different countries or regions …