Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Holger Bonin (), Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus Zimmermann ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 16, issue 15, 1581-1586

Abstract: This article questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

Date: 2009
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Working Paper: Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes (2006)
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850701578926

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