| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP6403
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| DP6403 Social Attitudes and Economic Development:An Epidemiological Approach |
| Pierre Cahuc; Yann Algan
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| 发表日期 | 2007-07-27
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| 出版年 | 2007
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a randomly drawn sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. Subjects also take part in two different tests of cognitive ability, which correspond to sub-modules of one of the most widely used IQ tests. Interviews are conducted in subjects' own homes. We find that lower cognitive ability is associated with greater risk aversion, and more pronounced impatience. These relationships are significant, and robust to controlling for personal characteristics, educational attainment, income, and measures of credit constraints. We perform a series of additional robustness checks, which help rule out other possible confounds. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
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| 关键词 | Cognitive ability
Field experiment
Risk preference
Time preference
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp6403
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535242
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Pierre Cahuc,Yann Algan. DP6403 Social Attitudes and Economic Development:An Epidemiological Approach. 2007.
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