title: Stereotypes and Risk Attitudes: Evidence from the Lab and the Field
creator: Leuermann, Andrea
creator: Roth, Benjamin
subject: ddc-330
subject: 330 Economics
description: Recent studies have found correlations between risk attitudes and several sociodemographic characteristics. In this paper, we deploy an artefactual fi eld experiment and study whether subjects - non-professionals and  financial professionals - are aware of these correlations. This is largely confi rmed by our results for all subject groups. We show that the subjects attach informational value to sociodemographic information when assessing others' risk attitudes. This provides external validity to the correlations found between risk preferences and sociodemographics. A person's self-assessment of risk attitudes is the most helpful device for the subjects' assessments of others, although experienced professionals make use of it to a minor extent than all other subjects.
date: 2012
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/13630/1/Leuermann_Roth_2012_dp533.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00013630
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-136301
identifier:   Leuermann, Andrea ; Roth, Benjamin  (2012) Stereotypes and Risk Attitudes: Evidence from the Lab and the Field.  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/13630/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng