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This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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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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In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …
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It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the choices of others are not even presented to the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the...
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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
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experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation …
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of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more self-justification to lie. …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the …
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