Math skills and risk attitudes

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Pablo Guillen and Rafael López del Paso

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 99, issue 2, 332-336

Abstract: We study whether math ability affects decision making under risk. Participants where divided in three math skill groups according to their performance in a GRE-like math test. We find no difference in behavior between groups across several risk measuring tasks.

Date: 2008
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