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Key behavioural characteristics of small-business owners : a lab-in-the-field experiment in Myanmar
Rand, John; Castro Rodriguez, Paula; Tarp, Finn; … - 2019
This study investigates the role of owners' personal preferences and behaviour in determining the success of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises using a lab-in-the-field experiment with small-business owners in Myanmar. The study is a complement to a 2017 quantitative survey conducted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122633
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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences
Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022
We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804345
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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences
Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022
We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938781
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Trust and trustworthiness under the prospect theory : a field experiment in Vietnam
Nguyen, Quang; Villeval, Marie-Claire; Xu, Hui - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621801
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How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?
Murad, Zahra; Sefton, Martin; Starmer, Chris - 2015
We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two confidence … elicitation procedures: self-reported (non-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty … risk attitudes. Finally, we find that self-reported confidence correlates significantly with features of individual risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434351
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How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?
Murad, Zahra; Sefton, Martin; Starmer, Chris - 2014
We examine confidence in own absolute performance using two elicitation procedures: selfreported (non …-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty equivalent of a bet based on performance. The former … incentivised procedure leads to significant underconfidence, and does not lead to better calibration between confidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344292
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Trust and Trustworthiness Under the Prospect Theory : A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Nguyen, Quang - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099719
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Anxiety, Risk Preferences, Betrayal Aversion, and the Growth of Interpersonal Trust
Aimone, Jason Anthony - 2014
Anxiety is often associated with poor economic outcomes, including earning 13% to 18% less than non-anxious peers. On the other hand, few studies explore how anxiety affects an individual's economic behavior. In part, this is due to a limited focus of clinical research on the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058002
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How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?
Murad, Zahra; Sefton, Martin; Starmer, Chris - 2014 - This version: November 2014
We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two elicitation … procedures: self-reported (non-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty equivalent of a …. Finally, we find that self-reported confidence correlates significantly with features of individual risk attitudes including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439679
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Measuring trust in institutions and its causal effect
Penczynski, Stefan P.; Santana, Maria Isabel - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 1, pp. 213-243
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496994