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Selection and Mode Effects in Risk Preference Elicitation Experiments
von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin; van Soest, Arthur; … - 2021
We combine data from a risk preference elicitation experiment conducted on a representative sample via the Internet … with laboratory data on students for the same experiment to investigate effects of implementation mode and of subject pool … selection. We find that the frequency of errors in the lab experiment is drastically below that of the representative sample in …
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Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game : An Italian Study
O'Higgins, Niall - 2015
There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...
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Experts in Experiments : How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences
von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin - 2011
-induced selection") and self-selection of participants into the experiment. We find that both types of selection lead to a sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128213
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Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences : A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal - 2018
Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences...
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Biased Probability Judgment : Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample
Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2009
Many economic decisions involve a substantial amount of uncertainty, and therefore crucially depend on how individuals process probabilistic information. In this paper, we investigate the capability for probability judgment in a representative sample of the German population. Our results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159743
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Female Babies and Risk-Aversion
Pogrebna, Ganna - 2017
Being told the sex of your unborn child is a major exogenous 'shock'. In the first study of its kind, we collect before-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk-aversion. Using a standard Holt-Laury criterion, the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942093
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Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behaviour in a Broad Population
von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin - 2009
We analyse risk preferences using an experiment with real incentives in a representative sample of 1,422 Dutch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764659
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The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers
Alves, Guillermo - 2019
students. To do this, we conducted a high-stakes lab-in-the-field experiment in which participants played a series of online … experimental games and made incentivised decisions. The average payoff in the experiment was approximately 2.5 times higher than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870151
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023772