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.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Applied Economics Letters |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISSN | 1350-4851 |
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| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2025 |
Bibliographical note
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- Economics and Econometrics
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- altruism, Risk aversion, SOEP