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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 - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317551
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Lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of risk preferences
Schurer, Stefanie - 2015
Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of self-reported risk preferences. Tolerance to risk drops...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504529
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Health shocks and risk aversion
Decker, Simon; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2015
Risk preferences are typically assumed to be constant for an individual across the life cycle. In this paper we empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We follow an innovative approach and use grip strength...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439785
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Willingness to take risk: The role of risk conception and optimism
Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2019
We show that the disposition to focus on favorable or unfavorable outcomes of risky situations affects willingness to take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994095
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Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences
Schurer, Stefanie - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of self-reported risk preferences. Tolerance to risk drops...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213876
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution: Implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2014
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352037
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Pollution Exposure and Infant Health: Evidence from Germany
Coneus, Katja; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2010
This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600954
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267914
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Pollution Exposure and Infant Health: Evidence from Germany
Coneus, Katja; Spieß, C. Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671256
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Emotions, risk attitudes, and patience
Meier, Armando N. - 2019
Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people's emotions over time predicts changes in preferences. Using a large panel data set, I find that within-person...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012041905