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Gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James Joseph - 2009

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …

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Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009

candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …

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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …

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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Efficient probit estimation with partially missing covariates

Conniffe, Denis; O'Neill, Donal - 2009

A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for models with missing covariate data where the dependent variable is binary. For the benchmark case of...

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Unemployment Benefits, Risk Aversion, and Migration Incentives

Heitmüller, Axel - 2002

With reference to the EU enlargement, a framework is derived which allows the study of the effect of unemployment benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected gain for risk neutral individuals, they work as an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the...

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Choosing to compete: how different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2009

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

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What's the use of marriage?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...

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Labour Income Uncertainty, Risk Aversion and Home Ownership

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2004

In this paper we investigate the effect of labour income uncertainty on the probability of home ownership in Germany and Spain. This study is motivated by two facts. Firstly, theoretical models provide ambiguous results in this issue. Secondly, there is limited previous empirical evidence and...

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On the Negative Relationship between Labor Income Uncertainty and Homeownership : Risk Aversion vs. Credit Constraints

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2004

Barriers to homeownership have traditionally been an important research and policy issue. In particular, the role of income volatility and credit constraints have been one of the main focuses in this concern. In this paper we test for the first time whether the underlying nature behind the...

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