exposure to risk. In this paper, we test whether overconfident people underestimate the probability of incurring an avalanche … under different levels of avalanche risk, we measured individual cognitive traits and then used a random effect logit model … overestimate their knowledge are also more likely to take the risk associated with a ski trip exposed to avalanche danger. This …

compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in …

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological … cohort study following the long-term outcome of early risk factors. Results indicate that initial risk conditions cumulate …

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, an epidemiological cohort … study following the long-term outcome of early risk factors. Results indicate that initial risk conditions cumulate and that …

investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the … population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an … in the experiments, and with greater risk aversion. This relationship is robust to controlling for personal …

supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …

correlations of cognitive skills in Germany are roughly the same or slightly stronger than those found by previous studies for … Germany seem to be considerably higher than the ones found for the U.S. Hence, skill transmission does not seem to be able to …