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Can Altruism Lead to a Willingness to Take Risks?

Stark, Oded - 2023

study is needed because it is unclear how altruism influences the inclination of an altruistic person to take risks. Will … ability to make altruistic transfers? Or does altruism induce a person to resort to risky behavior because the reward for a … averse than a comparable person who is not altruistic: altruism is a cause of greater willingness to take risks. The finding …

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Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2012

altruism towards children. They can affect their children's choices via two channels: either by influencing their preferences …

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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more …

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Effects of parental background on other-regarding preferences in children

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2011

Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...

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Public sector employees: risk averse and altruistic?

Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert; van den Bossche, Seth - 2009

We assess whether public sector employees have a stronger inclination to serve others and are more risk averse than employees in the private sector. A unique feature of our study is that we use revealed rather than stated preferences data. Respondents of a large-scale survey were offered a...

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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 literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...

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Risk-taking behavior in the wake of natural disasters

Cameron, Lisa Ann; Shah, Manisha - 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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The "bomb" risk elicitation task

Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - 2012

This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes. Subjects decide how many boxes to collect out of 100, one of which containing a bomb. Earnings increase linearly with the number of boxes accumulated but are zero if the bomb is...

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Reference points and effort provision

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

A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...

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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes - 2004

, which can be interpreted as weak evidence for parental altruism. The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

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