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gender, and the complexity of the tasks. We do so using both non-parametric tests and a structural model estimated with … maximum likelihood. We find that the estimated risk aversion parameters vary greatly across tasks and that gender differences …
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population for our experiment. By presenting subjects with choice tasks that vary the bias induced by random choices, we are able …
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This research integrates a standard "cheating" experiment into a broad household survey and finds relationships between … individual characteristics and cheating behavior. We allow for attendance of others at the cheating experiment, addressing the …, while affluence makes cheating costly, as it allows behaving honestly. The underlying experiment in rural Thailand …
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …
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questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about … the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a representative …
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participate in this artefactual field experiment. Subjects mainly rely on the other's self-assessment of risk preferences and on … gender when forming the belief about someone else's risk preferences. On average, subjects consider themselves to be more … ; financial advice ; artefactual field experiment ; behavioral finance …
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paper, we deploy an artefactual field experiment and study whether subjects - non-professionals and -financial professionals … to a minor extent than all other subjects. -- Risk preferences ; financial advice ; artefactual field experiment …
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paper, we deploy an artefactual fi eld experiment and study whether subjects - non-professionals and financial professionals …
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uncertainty on financial decision-makers. We address this research gap by presenting a controlled laboratory experiment exposing … include gender, age, income, extraversion, and neuroticism. Overall, we find causal evidence that the linguistic uncertainty …
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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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