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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We measure a family's SES by the mother's and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510510
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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We measure a family's SES by the mother's and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530593
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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034138
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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children’s IQ and economic preferences
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2017
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less likely to be risk-seeking. To understand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011755575
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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2017
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763834
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk Preference : Evidence from Parental Earthquake Experiences
Chang, Dongfeng; Liu, Qiannan; Liu, Wanlin; Zhang, Peng - 2023
This paper provides the first empirical analysis on whether and how intergenerational transmission affects children's risk preferences by exploiting exogenous variation in parents' risk preferences. We utilize parents' experiences to earthquakes---one of the most unpredictable natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014351262
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Gender differences in risk aversion and patience : evidence from a representative survey
Horn, Dániel; Kiss, Hubert János - 2019
remains significant at conventional levels. We carry out the same exercise for patience and document no significant gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012515
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A study of outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes
Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio; Heider, Janna - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 1, pp. 239-262
displays gender differences. This striking distance between the consensus and the data gathered with this elicitation method … provides a clean test of the presence of an outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. Exploiting a large data … set of replications of Holt and Laury (2002), we find no evidence that the likelihood of reporting about gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397652
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The binary lottery procedure does not induce risk neutrality in the Holt-Laury and Eckel-Grossman tasks
Oechssler, Joerg; Sofianos, Andis - 2019
We test whether the binary lottery procedure makes subjects behave as if they are risk neutral in the Holt-Laury and Eckel-Grossman tasks. Depending on the task we find that at most a third of subjects behave as if risk neutral. In fact, when we compare the distribution of choices we find no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007430
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Incentive contracts when agents distort probabilities
Gonzalez Jimenez, Victor H. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 3, pp. 607-653
optimal. A theoretical framework and an experiment demonstrate that stochastic contracts implemented with small probabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053193