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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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Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel fatigue. To evaluate the relevance of crowd support in determining home advantage we analyze...

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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...

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Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle

Piolatto, Amedeo; Rablen, Matthew D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Yitzhaki puzzle). The existing literature disagrees on whether prospect theory overturns the puzzle. We disentangle four … distinct elements of prospect theory and find loss aversion and probability weighting to be redundant in respect of the puzzle …. Prospect theory fails to reverse the puzzle for various classes of endogenous specification of the reference level. These …

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The Perception of Lethal Risks: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Schubert, Manuel; Brück, Tilman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We run a novel experiment to explore the relationship between the perception of real-life risks and the demand for risk reduction. Subjects play a series of loss lotteries in which the odds are matched to the likelihood of lethal events in real life. For each risk, subjects can pay premiums in...

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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender

Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these...

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New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment

Skriabikova, Olga; Dohmen, Thomas; Kriechel, Ben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become self-employed among individuals who grew up under the communist regime in Ukraine, which banned self-employment so that individuals could not observe what it is like to be self-employed. Since the intra-family...

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Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...

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Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment

van der Heijden, Eline; Klein, Tobias J.; Müller, Wieland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We confront a representative sample of one 1,102 Dutch individuals with a series of incentivized investment decisions and also elicit their time preferences. There are two treatments that differ in the frequency at which individuals decide about the invested amount. The low frequency treatment...

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Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control

Filippin, Antonio; Crosetto, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Evidence of Illusion of Control – the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events – is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to no support. In this paper we test whether this dissonant result across disciplines is due to...

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