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KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures comprise an index of child well-being used to rank states and supplemental data on education, health, and economic conditions for each state. Data from the 2003 KIDS COUNT Data Book...

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What Inspires Leisure Time Invention?

DAVIS, LEE N.; Davis, Jerome; Hoisl, Karin - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2009

This paper seeks to understand the intriguing but only sparsely explored phenomenon of “leisure timeinvention,” where … over 3,000German inventors, we tested hypotheses on the conditions under which leisure time invention is likelyto arise …. Results suggest that the incidence of leisure time invention is positively related to exposure toa variety of knowledge inputs …

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Freizeitsicherheit in der Schweiz

Mattig, Thomas; Schulte, Volker - 2004

Diese Broschüre gibt einen Überblick über die aktuelle Situation in der Freizeitsicherheit und zeigt die Möglichkeiten zur Förderung der Präventionsarbeit in der Schweiz auf.

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On the Informational Content of Changing Risk for Dynamic Asset Allocation

Barone-Adesi, Giovanni; Gagliardini, Patrik; Trojani, Fabio - 2000

This paper suggests that changing risk conveys information useful to improve performance.

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Testing the Modigliani-Miller theorem directly in the lab

Levati, Maria Vittoria; Qiu, Jianying; Mahagaonkar, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2011

) individual decision-making experiment, eliciting severalpoints on individual demand and supply curves for shares, provides some …

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Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task orAsk? An Empirical Comparison

Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2011

This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individualrisk attitudes | the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-itemquestionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Human, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner(forthcoming) | with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over time...

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A Note on Portfolio Selection under Various Risk Measures

De Giorgi, Enrico - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2002

This work gives a brief overview of the portfolio selection problem following the mean-risk approach first proposed by Markowitz (1952). We consider various risk measures, i.e. variance, value-at-risk and expected-shortfall and we study the efficient frontiers obtained by solving the portfolio...

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Individual-Level Loss Aversion in Riskless andRisky Choices

Gächter, Simon; Johnson, Eric J.; Herrmann, Andreas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whetherpeople who are loss averse in riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. Wemeasure individual-level loss aversion in riskless choices in an endowment effect experimentby eliciting both WTA and...

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Valuing A Risky Prospect Less Than Its Worst Outcome: Uncertainty Effect or Task Ambiguity?

Ortmann, Andreas; Prokosheva, Alexandra; Rydval, Ondřej; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

Gneezy, List and Wu [Q. J. Econ. 121 (2006) 1283-1309] document that lotteries are often valued less than the lotteries’ worst outcomes. We show how to undo this result.

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Let Me See You! A Video Experiment on the SocialDimension of Risk Preferences

Güth, Werner; Levati, M.Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

Previous studies have shown that decision makers are less other-regardingwhen their own payoff is risky than when it is …

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