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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Other Authors: Sutter, Matthias (Other) , Kocher, Martin (Other) , Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela (Other) , Trautmann, Stefan T. (Other)
Format: Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Bonn IZA 2010
Series:Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5404
In: 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
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