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About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has exploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...
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Anti-immigrant sentiment is frequently motivated by the idea that migrants are a threat to the host country’s culture … (Rapoport et al., 2020). We contribute to the discussion by investigating whether migrants adapt their social preferences (SPs … migrants’ preferences strongly correlate with their host population’s SPs and provide some evidence of a causal relationship …
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Economic theory and empirical evidence establish that economic preferences predict behavior and life outcomes for children, adolescents, and adults. In this paper, we use novel data on 4,282 siblings aged 6 to 16 that combine incentivized measures of time, risk, and social preferences with...
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by somebody else and test this preposition in a laboratory experiment. We let participants play a dictator game with two …
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preference heterogeneity has its roots in the structure of the temporally distant migration patterns of our very early ancestors …-country regressions, (ii) in within-country analyses across groups of migrants, and (iii) in analyses that leverage variation across …
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In this paper, we hypothesize that the strength of the consensus effect, i.e., the tendency for people to overweight the prevalence of their own values and preferences when forming beliefs about others' values and preferences, depends on the salience of own preferences. We manipulate salience by...
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We use novel data on nearly 6,000 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 that combine incen-tivized measures of social, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children's economic preferences predict their behavior. Re-sults from...
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We use novel data on nearly 6,000 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 that combine incentivized measures of social, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children's economic preferences predict their behavior. Results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495064
We use novel data on nearly 6,000 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 that combine incentivized measures of social, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children's economic preferences predict their behavior. Results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014634682
Our research investigates whether social preferences are stable across contexts in the field. We build a unique data set by recruiting participants from a low-income urban neighborhood to participate in a series of laboratory experiments. Their decisions are used to demonstrate the stability of...
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