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Relationship of gender differences in preferences to economic development and gender equality

Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes - 2018

differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six … to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences … were positively related to economic development and gender equality. This suggests that greater availability of and equal …

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Am I my peer‘s keeper? : social responsibility in financial decision making

Füllbrunn, Sascha; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - 2015

oder für andere Personen. Wir verwenden ein „within-subjects“ für unser Experiment, bei dem Vermögensverwalter in …

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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014

We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...

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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 equivalent of a bet based on performance. The former...

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The relation between privacy protection and risk attitudes, with a new experimental method to elicit the implicit monetary value of privacy

Frik, Alisa; Gaudeul, Alexia - 2016

We investigate the decision of experimental subjects to incur the risk of revealing personal private information to other participants. We do so by using a novel method to generate personal information that reliably induces privacy concerns in the laboratory. We show that individual decisions to...

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Giving in the face of risk

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno; Tran, Giang - 2016

interact in such situations. In this paper we provide experimental evidence on this question. In a first experiment givers are … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …

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Does self-control depletion affect risk attitudes?

Gerhardt, Holger; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2015

within a particular range. We test the hypotheses in a lab experiment with a large number of subjects (N = 308), using a well …

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Decision-making traits and states as determinants of risky choices

Gärtner, Manja; Tinghög, Gustav; Västfjäll, Daniel - 2019

experiment with a large representative sample (N = 1,832), we vary whether risky choices are induced to be based on either …

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Varieties of risk elicitation

Friedman, Daniel; Habib, Sameh; James, Duncan; … - 2018

We explore a variety of risk preference elicitation procedures that involve direct choice from a set of lotteries, including budget lines (BL) and binary choice lists (HL). We find statistically significant violations of the expected utility hypothesis (EUH) consistent with disappointment...

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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...

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