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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963826
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068645
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The Gender Gap Reloaded: Are School Characteristics Linked to Labor Market Performance?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This study examines the wage gender gap of young adults in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 in the US. Using quantile … regression we estimate the gender gap across the entire wage distribution. We also study the importance of high school … the two minority groups. We find significant wage gender disparities favoring men across all three surveys in the 1970s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068670
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Does Gender Affect Investors' Appetite for Risk?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending
Barasinska, Nataliya - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018188
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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda
Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216694
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Risk Attitudes and Investment Decisions across European Countries: Are Women More Conservative Investors than Men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661284
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Are Women More Credit-Constrained than Men?: Evidence from a Rising Credit Market
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661285
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Are Women More Credit-Constrained than Men?: Evidence from a Rising Credit Market
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128102
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Risk Attitudes and Investment Decisions across European Countries: Are Women More Conservative Investors than Men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128105
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Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
document that gender differences in schooling and educational mobility, found among older-aged individuals, disappeared in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128838