We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …

Studying competitiveness and risk-taking among Jeopardy! contestants in the US, this paper analyzes whether and how … episode, (ii) responding to a clue (i.e., 'buzzing' in), and (iii) responding correctly to a clue. Risk-taking is assessed via … three samples, but this result changes when considering risk-taking. Although we identify no gender differences in wagering …

We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We … find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program … targeting school absences was most effective in reducing the truancy of adolescents with relatively risk-averse parents …

I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and …

aim of this paper is to study interactions among different types of risk-taking behavior by youth, namely drug use and …Using an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the population in the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Brazil, the …-esteem, or the occurrence of violence at home and in the neighborhood, on the probability of risk-taking behavior. A bivariate …

We analyse the effect of parental risk preferences and a novel measure of maternal bargaining power over educational …. Data from 135 couples and their children show that father's risk aversion is negatively associated with school attendance …'s risk aversion, on the other hand, has a positive association with the transition into primary schooling and a negative …

factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have …, these young people tend to pursue high-risk behaviors associated with immediate rewards, including crime and violence … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the …

-reported importance of religion and on the risk of youths having early sexual intercourse, drinking underage, trying cigarettes, trying … set of adolescent, school, and family characteristics, including achievements in standardized test scores at age 11 …

-targeting algorithm that incorporates machine-learning techniques to identify heterogeneous effects, as well as the direct effects and …

us to address these problems. We find that an adolescent's performance at the end of junior high-school are strongly …