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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2008
parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094270
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The Formation of Prosociality : Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment
Kosse, Fabian - 2018
' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomly-assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914951
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Preferences for Consistency
Falk, Armin - 2011
This paper studies how a preference for consistency can affect economic decision-making. We propose a two-period model where people have a preference for consistency because consistent behavior allows them to signal personal and intellectual strength. We then present three experiments that study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121870
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Facing Yourself - A Note on Self-Image
Falk, Armin - 2017
Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of the former, little is known about the role of self-image concerns. We exogenously vary self-image...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956711
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Preferences for Consistency
Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - CESifo - 2011
This paper studies how a preference for consistency can affect economic decision-making. We propose a two-period model where people have a preference for consistency because consistent behavior allows them to signal personal and intellectual strength. We then present three experiments that study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228620
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Defaults and Donations : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Altmann, Steffen - 2015
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030492
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Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - CESifo - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099049
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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009865
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257675