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Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2009

We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) and market and household productivity of potential mates (proxied by socioeconomic...

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test …

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Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Characteristics in the Marriage Market

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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On the Curvature of the Reporting Function from Objective Reality to Subjective Feelings

Oswald, Andrew J - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2008

I suggest the idea of a reporting function, r(.), from reality to feelings. The ‘happiness’ literature claims we have demonstrated diminishing marginal utility of income. I show not, and that knowing r(.)’s curvature is crucial. A quasi-experiment on heights is studied.

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - The Field Experiments Website - 2005

willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - The Field Experiments Website - 2005

willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …

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Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2014

We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and … the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when … hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …

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Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2014

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test …

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