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Do Europeans Care about Climate Change? An Illustration of the Importance of Data on Human Feelings
Nowakowski, Adam; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2020
Economists have proposed a variety of sophisticated climate-change interventions. But do our citizens care enough about climate change to enact such policies? This paper provides evidence that suggests they do not. Two kinds of findings are presented. Using data on 40,000 Europeans from the 2016...
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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …
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Flexibility at the margin and labor market volatility in OECD countries
Sala, Héctor; Silva, José Ignacio; Toledo, Manuel E. - 2008
achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
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Individual risk attitudes: new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey
Dohmen, Thomas - 2005
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267371
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Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting: the role of risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2006
This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...
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Is there selection bias in laboratory experiments? The case of social and risk preferences
Cleave, Blair L.; Nikiforakis, Nikos; Slonim, Robert - 2011
Laboratory experiments are frequently used to examine the nature of individual preferences and inform economic theory. However, it is unknown whether the preferences of volunteer participants are representative of the population from which the participants are drawn or whether they differ due to...
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Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes
Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
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Robust estimation of wage dispersion with censored data: An application to occupational earnings risk and risk attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz C. - 2012
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
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Gender differences in risk aversion: Do single-sex environments affect their development?
Booth, Alison; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - 2011
Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....
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