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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...

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Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences

Corazzini, Luca; Filippin, Antonio; Vanin, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological effects of alcohol intoxication from those mediated by...

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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness

Hao, Li; Houser, Daniel; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk, ambiguity, and competitiveness. Our subjects include migrants and non-migrants. We find that, migrants exhibit no differences from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences...

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

, sports and leisure, career, and health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but …

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Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences

Schurer, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of self-reported risk preferences. Tolerance to risk drops...

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Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline

Smith, James P.; Tian, Meng; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …

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Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences

Cleave, Blair L.; Nikiforakis, Nikos; Slonim, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Laboratory experiments are frequently used to examine the nature of individual preferences and inform economic theory …

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Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...

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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System

Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …

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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006

Liu, Hong; Fang, Hai; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … period 1989-2006. We also find that the urban–rural health and nutritional disparities have been declining significantly from …

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