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Can risk-taking preferences be modified? : some experimental evidence

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2014

We summarise our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see if single-sex classes within coeducational environments modify students' risk-taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth, Cardona-Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are first-year...

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Looming large or seeming small? : attitudes towards losses in a representative sample

Chapman, Jonathan; Snowberg, Erik; Wang, Stephanie; … - 2022

We measure individual-level loss aversion using three incentivized, representative surveys of the U.S. population (combined N = 3,000). We find that around 50% of the U.S. population is loss tolerant, with many participants accepting negative-expected-value gambles. This is counter to earlier...

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Cross-game learning and cognitive ability in auctions

Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kocher, Martin; … - 2021

Overbidding in second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use...

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Attention and selection effects

Ambuehl, Sandro; Ockenfels, Axel; Stewart, Colin - 2018

Who participates in transactions when information about the consequences must be learned? We show theoretically that decision makers for whom acquiring and processing information is more costly respond more strongly to changes in incentive payments for participating and decide to participate...

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Econographics

Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018

We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....

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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability

Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023

Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...

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Modigliani meets minsky : inequality, debt, and financial fragility in America, 1950-2016

Bartscher, Alina K.; Kuhn, Moritz; Schularick, Moritz; … - 2020

This paper studies the secular increase in U.S. household debt and its relation to growing income inequality and … financial fragility. We exploit a new household-level dataset that covers the joint distributions of debt, income, and wealth in … income growth played a central role in rising indebtedness. Debt-to-income ratios have risen most dramatically for households …

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A case for partial funding of pensions with an application to the EU Candidate Countries

Oksanen, Heikki - 2001

The paper examines the effects of ageing and makes a case for partial pre-funding of pensions. The argument is based on …

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The politics of pension reform under ageing

Leers, Theo; Meijdam, Lex; Verbon, Harrie - 2001

In this paper we address the question whether in case of population ageing a transition from an unfunded to a more …

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Après nous le déluge? : direct democracy and intergenerational conflicts in ageing societies

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte - 2016 - Version: January 2016

To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on … intergenerational conflicts arising from population ageing will likely be limited to areas in which the net present value differs … such instances, however, the effect can be quantitatively relevant, raising the question of whether, as population ageing …

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