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promotion standards are chosen to maximize profit, the standards will reflect gender in ways that are difficult to distinguish …
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Using implicit expected utility theory, a money metric of utility derived from playing a lottery game is developed …
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misperceptions of probability drive the favorite-longshot bias, as suggested by Prospect Theory …
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This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical … activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and … health. Many prior studies have relied primarily on leisure-time physical activity, which typically constitutes only about 10 …
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We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Our interpretation is that highly trusting individuals tend to assume too much social risk and to be cheated...
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across countries, but even larger within-country heterogeneity. Across individuals, preferences vary with age, gender, and …
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We study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use, truancy) by the first wave of the survey, we estimate...
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This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …
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identity salient to black subjects, non-immigrant blacks (but not immigrant blacks) make more patient choices. Making gender …
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We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....
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