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. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health relate...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Bonn
IZA
2010
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| Series: | Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
5404 |
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Discussion paper series (5404)
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://ftp.iza.org/dp5404.pdf Download aus dem Internet, Stand: 24.10.2011, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51847 
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| Author Notes: | Matthias Sutter; Martin G. Kocher; Daniela Rützler; Stefan T. Trautmann |
| Summary: | We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health related field behavior and saving decisions. In particular, more impatient children and adolescents are more likely to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes, have a higher body mass index (BMI) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of field behavior. -- experiments with children and adolescents ; risk ; ambiguity ; time preferences ; health status ; savings ; external validity ; field behavior |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| Format: | Systemvoraussetzung: Acrobat Reader. |