Risk tolerance and altruism: evidence on their relationship from Germany

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This article explores the nexus between risk tolerance and altruism. Using information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find a statistically and economically significant positive correlation between risk tolerance and proxies for altruism conditional on a long covariate vector.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftApplied Economics Letters
Anzahl der Seiten5
ISSN1350-4851
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PublikationsstatusAngenommen/Im Druck - 2025

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