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Incentive effects on risk attitude in small probability prospects
Lefebvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009
prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities … section for very small amounts. -- Risk attitude ; incentives ; decision ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910085
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Risk preferences are not time preferences : comment
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2012
Andreoni and Sprenger (in press) report evidence that distinct utility functions govern choices under certainty and risk. I investigate the robustness of their result to the experimental design. I find that the effect disappears completely when a multiple price list is used instead of a convex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575158
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The "bomb" risk elicitation task
Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - 2012
-scale experiment. Choices react significantly to the stakes and to the size of the choice set. Our experiment rationalizes the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568710
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Crime and self-control revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk and social preferences
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345126
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Economic behavior of children and adolescents : a first survey of experimental economics results
Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, Claudia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2018
About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has exploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949208
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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: a large-scale experiment
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020
market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245060
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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-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798209
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Economic behavior under alcohol influence : an experiment on time, risk, and social preferences
Corazzini, Luca; Filippin, Antonio; Vanin, Paolo - 2014
We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but … the willingness to pay and the potential misperception of probabilities as elicited in the experiment, we do not detect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355859
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Do economic preferences of children predict behavior?
Breitkopf, Laura; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Priyam, Shambhavi - 2024
We use novel data on nearly 6,000 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 that combine incentivized measures of social, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children's economic preferences predict their behavior. Results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495064
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A field study of Chinese migrant workers' attitudes toward risks, strategic uncertainty, and competitiveness
Hao, Li; Houser, Daniel; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360288