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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices

Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...

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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018 - This version: February 13, 2018

Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real … that has examined how and when economic preferences are formed, putting particular emphasis on the role of … intergenerational transmission of economic preferences within families. Our paper is the first to run incentivized experiments with …

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Persecution and escape : professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2021

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...

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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism

Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

literature on the enduring effects of communist systems on economic outcomes, political preferences, cultural traits, and gender …

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …

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Impatience and uncertainty : experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2011

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … preferences ; health status ; savings ; conduct at school ; external validity …

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Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? : the impact of birth order and siblings' sex composition on economic preferences

Detlefsen, Lena; Friedl, Andreas; Lima de Miranda, Katharina - 2018 - This version: 9 November 2018

The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes … social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

, risk preferences, and cognitive abilities, and is not driven by sample attrition. Accounting for middle-school GPA as a …

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Homophily and transmission of behavioral traits in social networks

Bhargava, Palaash; Chen, Daniel L.; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2023

Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily: behavioral traits. Behavioral traits are important determinants...

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