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Parenthood and risk preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 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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Men are from Mars, and women too : a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments
Bandiera, Oriana; Parekh, Nidhi; Petrongolo, Barbara; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798247
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Is the willingness to take financial risk a sex-linked trait? : evidence from national surveys of household finance
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2013
country’s gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …
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Are the upwardly mobile more left-wing?
Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327173
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Global warming cools voters down : how climate concerns affect policy preferences
Cotofan, Maria; Kuralbaeva, Karlygash Z.; Matakos, … - 2024
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Ruled by robots : preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices
Chugunova, Marina; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - 2023
nature of the decisionmaker affects how decisions are perceived by the affected people. We use a laboratory experiment to … negatively to redistribution decisions that do not fit any fairness ideals. Our results suggest that even in the realm of moral …
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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...
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Have preferences become more similar worldwide?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2023
results document that, among more recent birth cohorts, preferences are more similar across countries and gender gaps in …
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School choice and loss aversion
Meisner, Vincent; Wangenheim, Jonas von - 2019
Extensive evidence suggests that participants in the direct student-proposing deferred-acceptance mechanism (DSPDA) play dominated strategies. In particular, students with low priority tend to misrepresent their preferences for popular schools. To explain the observed data, we introduce...
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Procurement design with loss averse bidders
Fugger, Nicolas; Gillen, Philippe; Riehm, Tobias - 2019
We show that it is beneficial for a buyer to conduct a multi-stage mechanism if bidders are loss averse. In a first step, we derive a revenue equivalence principle. Fixing the multi-stage structure, the revenue is independent of the chosen payment rule. Secondly, we introduce a simple two-stage...
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