Several scholars analyze the relationship between individuals’ willingness to take risks and financial investment decisions. We add to this literature in using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel which allow ruling out that investments in risky assets itself impact on risk attitudes. We...

This paper examines the relationship between generational differences, risk tolerance, and attitudes towards financial investments in a nationally representative sample from the United States of America. The sample consists of pooled cross-sectional data of three waves (2012-2018) and 80,000...

In this paper, we use a sample of almost 30,000 Swedish mono- and dizygotic twins to study the heritability of financial risk-taking. Following a major pension reform in the year 2000, virtually all Swedish adults had to simultaneously make a finnancial decision axoecting post-retirement wealth....