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Risk-Taking, Trust, and Traumatization Among Syrian Refugees in Jordan – A Lab-in-The-Field Experiment
El-Bialy, Nora - 2017
An unprecedented number of refugees from Syria has sought refuge in both the Middle East as well as in Europe since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011. Refugees do not only bring patterns of behavior they have acquired over their childhood and adolescence with them but also the –...
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529903
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam
Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021
We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social … identities to understand how group identification and socialization affect ingroup favoritism and out-group discrimination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419371
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Experimentally validated general risk attitude among different ethnic groups in Vietnam
Pham, Huong Dien; Liebenehm, Sabine; Waibel, Hermann - 2017
validated by a risk experiment among different ethnic groups. Albeit we find that ethnic minorities are on average more risk …
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The heritability of economic preferences
Kettlewell, Nathan; Tymula, Agnieszka; Hong il Yoo - 2023
We study the heritability of risk, uncertainty, and time preferences using a field experiment with a large sample of … economic preference parameters directly without employing proxy measures. Our incentive-compatible experiment is the first twin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437546
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Local Religious Beliefs and Mutual Fund Risk-Taking Behaviors
Shu, Tao - 2011
We study the effects of local religious beliefs on mutual fund risk-taking behaviors. Funds located in low-Protestant or high-Catholic areas exhibit significantly higher fund return volatilities. Similar differences persist when we use the religiosity ratios at fund managers' college locations....
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Risk-averse by nation or by religion? : some insights on the determinants of individual risk attitudes
Bartke, Stephan; Schwarze, Reimund - 2008
level. We analyze these two possible determinants of individual risk attitudes: nationality and religion. First addressing … constituent factors including religion. (2) Religiousness is a significant determinant of risk attitudes. Religious persons are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632881
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Risk-Averse by Nation or by Religion? Some Insights on the Determinants of Individual Risk Attitudes
Bartke, Stephan; Schwarze, Reimund - 2008
level. We analyze these two possible determinants of individual risk attitudes: nationality and religion. First addressing … constituent factors including religion. (2) Religiousness is a significant determinant of risk attitudes. Religious persons are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213814
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Religion, Places of Worship, and Individual Risk-taking in China
Xu, Li; Zhao, Ningru; Zheng, Jin Di - 2023
The influence of religious beliefs on investment is interesting and important in literature. We use a large dataset with detailed information on the worship places of the five largest religious groups in China to study the relationship between local religious beliefs and individual financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343896
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Gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes : experimental evidence from a matrilineal and a patrilineal society
Pondorfer, Andreas; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Rehdanz, Katrin; … - 2014
We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences …
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