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Efficient probit estimation with partially missing covariates
Conniffe, Denis; O'Neill, Donal - 2009
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for models with missing covariate data where the dependent variable is binary. For the benchmark case of...
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Does reminding of behavioural biases increase returns from financial trading? : a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Piluso, Fabio - 2017
We ran a field experiment to investigate whether nudge policies, consisting in behavioural insight messaging, help to improve performance in financial trading. Our experiment involved students enrolled in a financial trading course in an Italian University who were invited to trade on Borsa...
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Hidden insurance in a moral hazard economy
Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - 2013
with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then … standard functional form restrictions ensure that individual objective functions are optimized by an effort and insurance … combination that is unique and satisfies first- and second-order conditions. Modeling insurance incompleteness in terms of costly …
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Early health, risk aversion and stock market participation
Böckerman, Petri; Conlin, Andrew; Svento, Rauli - 2019
To examine the relationship between early health status and financial decisions in adulthood, we link information on birth weight in 1966 from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort to data from the Finnish Central Securities Depository over the period of 1995-2010. We find that persons predisposed...
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Marriage as insurance : job protection and job insecurity in France
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Lepinteur, Anthony - 2022
insure against it, and we here consider marriage as one potential source of this insurance. The 1999 rise in the French …, and especially when the partner had greater job security, consistent with marriage providing insurance against labour …
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Preferences and biases in educational choices and labor market expectations : shrinking the black box of gender
Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2013
Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these...
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Gender wage gaps and risky vs. secure employment : an experimental analysis
Jung, Seeun; Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2016
In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of exposure to unemployment) and a secure job after...
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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002
We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...
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Unemployment benefits, risk aversion, and migration incentives
Heitmueller, Axel - 2002
an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the results for the two groups might differ. Thus, the migration decision …
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Absolute risk aversion and the returns to education
Brunello, Giorgio - 2000
Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education...
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