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Can We Measure Individual Risk Attitudes in a Survey?

Ding, Xiaohao - 2010

We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate … individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … parental income, risk attitudes are domain-specific. Correlations between survey measures and experimental measures, are in the …

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The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

Krueger, Alan B.; Schkade, David - 2021

This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in Spring 2005. The correlation of net affect (i.e.,...

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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data

Dale, Stacy Berg - 2011

We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey … self-reported reported in 1995 on the C&B follow-up survey. In this analysis, we use administrative earnings data to …

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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability : Entrepreneurs versus Employees

Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2021

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs' incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability,...

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