Intergenerational transmission of risk attitudes – A revealed preference approach

Sarah Necker and Andrea Voskort

European Economic Review, 2014, vol. 65, issue C, 66-89

Abstract: This study investigates whether children and parents show a similar willingness to take risk in their choice of occupation. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we calculate the occupational variation in earnings unexplained by human capital differences to obtain a measure of occupational risk. We find that fathers' earnings risk is significantly positively related to sons' earnings risk. The same link is found when unemployment risk is considered. However, a conclusion indicated by previous studies based on self-reports of individuals' risk attitude as well as our findings is that intergenerational transmission is weak in terms of effect size.

Keywords: Risk preferences; Intergenerational transmission; Occupational choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D81 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.10.005

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