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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w25723 |
来源ID | Working Paper 25723 |
Risk Preferences of Children and Adolescents in Relation to Gender, Cognitive Skills, Soft Skills, and Executive Functions | |
James Andreoni; Amalia Di Girolamo; John A. List; Claire Mackevicius; Anya Samek | |
发表日期 | 2019-04-08 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We conduct experiments eliciting risk preferences with over 1,400 children and adolescents aged 3-15 years old. We complement our data with an assessment of cognitive and executive function skills. First, we find that adolescent girls display significantly greater risk aversion than adolescent boys. This pattern is not observed among young children, suggesting that the gender gap in risk preferences emerges in early adolescence. Second, we find that at all ages in our study, cognitive skills (specifically math ability) are positively associated with risk taking. Executive functions among children, and soft skills among adolescents, are negatively associated with risk taking. Third, we find that greater risk-tolerance is associated with higher likelihood of disciplinary referrals, which provides evidence that our task is equipped to measure a relevant behavioral outcome. For academics, our research provides a deeper understanding of the developmental origins of risk preferences and highlights the important role of cognitive and executive function skills to better understand the association between risk preferences and cognitive abilities over the studied age range. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Game Theory ; Econometrics ; Experimental Design |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25723 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583397 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James Andreoni,Amalia Di Girolamo,John A. List,et al. Risk Preferences of Children and Adolescents in Relation to Gender, Cognitive Skills, Soft Skills, and Executive Functions. 2019. |
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