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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G.; Rützler, Daniela; … - CESifo - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364730
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Variation in Risk Seeking Behavior in a Natural Experiment on Large Losses Induced by a Natural Disaster
Page, Lionel - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103582
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The Impact of Financial Education on Adolescents' Intertemporal Choices
Lührmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta; Winter, Joachim - CESifo - 2014
We study the impact of financial education on intertemporal choice in adolescence. The program was randomly assigned among high-school students and intertemporal choices were measured using an incentivized experiment. Students who participated in the program display a decrease in time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274344
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Deadlines and Cognitive Limitations
Altmann, Steffen - 2018
, leads to a drop in the agent's rewards. If the agent exhibits cognitive limitations, postponing increases the risk of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929475
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The Impact of Financial Education on Adolescents' Intertemporal Choices
Lührmann, Melanie - 2018
We study the impact of financial education on intertemporal choice in adolescence. The educational program was randomly assigned among high-school students and choices were measured using an incentivized experiment. Students who participated in the program make more time-consistent choices; are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937819
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Children Do Not Behave Like Adults: Gender Gaps in Performance and Risk Taking within a Random Social Context in the High-StakesGame Shows Jeopardy and Junior Jeopardy
Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Lindquist, Gabriella Sjögren - CESifo - 2014
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736749
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Variation in Risk Seeking Behavior in a Natural Experiment on Large Losses Induced by a Natural Disaster
Page, Lionel; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2012
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556847
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A Parametric Analysis of Prospect Theory's Functionals for the General Population
Booij, Adam S.; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; Kuilen, Gijs Van De - CESifo - 2009
individuals are found to be more risk averse, in agreement with common findings. Unlike previous studies that ascribed gender … differences in risk attitudes solely to differences in the degree utility curvature, however, our results show that this finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000376
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A Parametric Analysis of Prospect Theory's Functionals for the General Population
Booij, Adam S. - 2009
individuals are found to be more risk averse, in agreement with common findings. Unlike previous studies that ascribed gender … differences in risk attitudes solely to differences in the degree utility curvature, however, our results show that this finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763991
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Pay Few Subjects But Pay Them Well : Cost-Effectiveness of Random Incentive Systems
March, Christoph - 2016
Most large-scale economic experiments use a between-subjects random incentive system-BRIS-which selects a subset of the participants at random and offers real payment only to the selected participants. We evaluate the relative impact of nominal payoffs and the selection probability on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985450