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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

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; … - 2021

Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...

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One size fits all? : the interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bortolotti, Stefania; Salicath, Daniel; … - 2024

, personality traits, economic preferences and socioeconomic background matter. Algorithmic assignment of payment schemes could … heterogeneity by investigating how personal characteristics, preferences, and socio-economic background relate to incentives and …

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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: a large-scale experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020

) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor … market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 …

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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

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

preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …

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Impatience and uncertainty : experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2010

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … field behavior. -- experiments with children and adolescents ; risk ; ambiguity ; time preferences ; health status ; savings …

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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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