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competitiveness. All of these aspects are analyzed with respect to the influence of age and gender, and we also consider the role of …
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Myopic loss aversion (MLA) has been found to play a persistent role for investment behavior under risk. We study whether MLA is already present during adolescence. Quite surprisingly, we find no evidence of MLA in a sample of 755 adolescents. This finding is at odds with previous findings, and...
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competitiveness. All of these aspects are analyzed with respect to the influence of age and gender, and we also consider the role of …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness … emerge very early in life. The gap is robust to controlling for gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence …
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We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city...
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness … emerge very early in life. The gap is robust to controlling for gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence …
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We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase with age. -- social preferences ; children ; adolescents ;...
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...
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