This paper documents a large association between individuals' time discounting in incentivized experiments and their positions in the real-life wealth distribution derived from Danish high-quality administrative data for a large sample of middle-aged individuals. The association is stable over...

This paper documents a large association between individuals' time discounting in incentivized experiments and their positions in the real-life wealth distribution derived from Danish high-quality administrative data for a large sample of middle-aged individuals. The association is stable over...

Befragungen von Konsumenten, Steuerzahlern und Wählern werden in Wirtschaft und Politik häufig als Entscheidungsgrundlage verwendet. Die Ergebnisse dieser Befragungen haben oft großen Einfluss auf politische Entscheidungen und damit auf den Alltag vieler Menschen. Befragungen sind besonders...

Women are commonly stereotyped as more risk averse than men in financial decision making. In this paper we examine whether this stereotype reflects actual differences in risk taking behavior by means of a laboratory experiment with monetary incentives. Gender differences in risk taking may be...