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Testing Canonical Tournament Theory : On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure

Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2012

We use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of canonical tournament theory. Both the roles of principal and agent are populated by human subjects, allowing us to test predictions for both incentive responses and optimal tournament design. Consistent with theory, we observed an...

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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences : A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children

Angerer, Silvia - 2014

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger - 2007

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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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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The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences : Global Evidence

Falk, Armin - 2015

, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates …

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Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might : A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply

Boone, Jan - 2009

It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting...

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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias : Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?

Snowberg, Erik C. - 2011

The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning - longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion : Do Single-Sex Environments Affect Their Development?

Booth, Alison L. - 2011

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …

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Trust and Trustworthiness Under the Prospect Theory : A Field Experiment in Vietnam

Nguyen, Quang - 2012

We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in …

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Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters

Cameron, Lisa A. - 2012

We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in Indonesia and find that individuals who recently suffered a flood or earthquake...

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