Risk tolerance and altruism: evidence on their relationship from Germany
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk tolerance and altruism
T2 - evidence on their relationship from Germany
AU - Friehe, Tim
AU - Pfeifer, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - altruism
KW - Risk aversion
KW - SOEP
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105011540720&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13504851.2025.2536709
DO - 10.1080/13504851.2025.2536709
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:105011540720
JO - Applied Economics Letters
JF - Applied Economics Letters
SN - 1350-4851
ER -