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This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...
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This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio- Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763618
We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making – willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people – are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures...
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respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the … population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity, (iii) the correlation between positive and negative inclinations within … inclinations, in particular in terms of positive reciprocity. However, there is substantial heterogeneity in the degree of …
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reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76 countries. The data reveal substantial heterogeneity in preferences …
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, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates …
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reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76 countries. The data reveal substantial heterogeneity in preferences …
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reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76 countries. The data reveal substantial heterogeneity in preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453771