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Risk aversion, patience and intelligence: evidence based on macro data

Using the new macro data on risk aversion and patience by Falk et al. (2018), I show that risk aversion and patience are related to intelligence: high-IQ populations are more patient and more risk averse than low-IQ populations. The correlation between patience and intelligence corroborates previous results based on micro data. Intelligent people tend to be patient because they have long time horizons. The correlation between risk aversion and intelligence supports new micro data studies based on dynamically optimized sequential experimentation (Chapman et al. 2018).

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7546

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Microeconomics: General
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General‡
Thema
risk aversion
patience
intelligence

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Potrafke, Niklas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Potrafke, Niklas
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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