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menus. Applications involve using inferred risk preferences to document demographic effects, e.g. gender, and to explain the …
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I study the gender differences in performance in multiple-choice questions in a setting where wrong answers are … of them answering incorrectly to the MCQ higher. Hence, gender differences in test results might reflect differences in …
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This study replicates and extends the work of Falk and Hermle (2018. “Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences … to Economic Development and Gender Equality.” Science 362 (6412): eaas9899), who hypothesized that gender differences in … to economic development and gender equality. While we were able to replicate their main results, we found that a number …
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This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
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displays gender differences. This striking distance between the consensus and the data gathered with this elicitation method … provides a clean test of the presence of an outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. Exploiting a large data … set of replications of Holt and Laury (2002), we find no evidence that the likelihood of reporting about gender …
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sample size was 1 065. Age and gender were found to significantly influence investor risk tolerance. A negative relationship …
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We propose a novel way of measuring trust in institutions, which draws on the experimental method used to elicit time preferences. Our measure is provided in the meaningful metric of the subjective probability of trustworthiness of the trustee. In a lab‐in‐the‐field setting in the...
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