Impatience and uncertainty: experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health-relate...

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Main Authors: Sutter, Matthias (Author) , Trautmann, Stefan T. (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: February 2013
In: American economic review
Year: 2013, Volume: 103, Issue: 1, Pages: 510-531
ISSN:1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/aer.103.1.510
Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.1.510
Verlag, Volltext: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.103.1.510
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Author Notes:by Matthias Sutter, Martin G. Kocher, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, and Stefan T. Trautmann
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