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Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences

Deckers, Thomas - 2017

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...

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How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Deckers, Thomas - 2015

We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We measure a family's SES by the mother's and...

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The Formation of Prosociality : Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Kosse, Fabian - 2016

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory : Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2023

with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combiningrepresentative survey data with representative … behavioral data from a social dilemmaexperiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust correlate … wellwith behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilledworkers and people living in …

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