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DOI10.3386/w25723
来源IDWorking 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
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w25723
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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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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