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Can altruism lead to a willingness to take risks?
Stark, Oded - 2023
study is needed because it is unclear how altruism influences the inclination of an altruistic person to take risks. Will … ability to make altruistic transfers? Or does altruism induce a person to resort to risky behavior because the reward for a … averse than a comparable person who is not altruistic: altruism is a cause of greater willingness to take risks. The finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423411
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Can altruism lead to a willingness to take risks?
Stark, Oded - 2023
study is needed because it is unclear how altruism influences the inclination of an altruistic person to take risks. Will … ability to make altruistic transfers? Or does altruism induce a person to resort to risky behavior because the reward for a … averse than a comparable person who is not altruistic: altruism is a cause of greater willingness to take risks. The finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014394252
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Social Norms in the Intergenerational Transfer of Renewable Resources when the Agent has Present-Biased Preferences
Persichina, Marco - 2021
The paper analyzes the effects of present-biased preferences on the transfer of resources to future generations in the framework of renewable resource harvesting. The paper assumes that the current generation has other-regarding motivations for future generations, expressed through the adherence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226328
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Intergenerational transmission of preferences and the operativeness of bequest motive
Alonso-Carrera, Jaime; Bouché, Stéphane - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 56 (2024) 4, pp. 899-932
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545038
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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences
Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022
We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804345
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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences
Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022
We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938781
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Molecular Genetics, Risk Aversion, Return Perceptions, and Stock Market Participation
Sias, Richard W. - 2020
Molecular genetic endowments related to cognition, personality, health, and body shape, established at least half a century prior, predict an individual's risk aversion, beliefs regarding the distribution of expected equity returns, and equity market participation. We estimate that approximately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850770
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Molecular Genetics, Risk Aversion, Return Perceptions, and Stock Market Participation
Sias, Richard - 2020
We show that molecular variation in DNA related to cognition, personality, health, and body shape, predicts an individual's equity market participation and risk aversion. Moreover, the molecular genetic endowments predict individuals' return perceptions, most of which we find to be strikingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481186
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Molecular genetics, risk aversion, return perceptions, and stock market participation
Sias, Richard W.; Starks, Laura T.; Turtle, Harry J. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270579
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Molecular Genetics, Risk Aversion, Return Perceptions, and Stock Market Participation
Sias, Richard; Starks, Laura T.; Turtle, Harry J. - 2022
We show that molecular variation in DNA related to cognition, personality, health, and body shape, predicts an individual’s equity market participation and risk aversion. Moreover, the molecular genetic endowments predict individuals’ return perceptions, most of which we find to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013405019