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Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798209
Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800548
We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but … the willingness to pay and the potential misperception of probabilities as elicited in the experiment, we do not detect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355859
We examine whether social preferences are determined by hormones. We do this by investigating whether markers for the strength of prenatal testosterone exposure (finger length ratios) and current exposure to progesterone and oxytocin (the menstrual cycle) are correlated with choices in social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011385989
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232056
We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but … the willingness to pay and the potential misperception of probabilities as elicited in the experiment, we do not detect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730076
In this chapter, we discuss the “lab-in-the-field” methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We begin by examining how the methodology has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023427
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490820
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