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The Relationship between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures
Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - CESifo - 2012
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877971
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The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures
Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality – such as the Big Five and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279288
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
. We test the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a …This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey … representative sample of 450 subjects, and find that the general risk question is a good predictor of actual risk-taking behavior. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123605
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The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures
Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - In: Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 453-478
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review, we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality, such as the Big Five and locus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822954
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - The Field Experiments Website - 2005
. We test the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a …This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey … representative sample of 450 subjects, and find that the general risk question is a good predictor of actual risk-taking behavior. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432540
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - The Field Experiments Website - 2005
. We test the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a …This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey … representative sample of 450 subjects, and find that the general risk question is a good predictor of actual risk-taking behavior. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432546
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey … take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test … the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a representative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762081
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877864
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Reference Points and Effort Provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078575
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Reference Points and Effort Provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, … - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552269