Risk Attitude and Nonmarital Birth

Uwe Jirjahn and Cornelia Chadi

No 10316, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using data of adult women from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that risk tolerance is associated with a higher probability of an out-of-partnership birth. In contrast, we find no association between risk tolerance and the probability of a cohabiting birth.

Keywords: out-of-partnership birth; cohabiting birth; risk attitude (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2016-10
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Published - revised version published in: Empirical Economics Letters, 2022, 21 (3), 7-13

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