Math skills and risk attitudes

被引：28

作者：

Branas-Garza, Pablo ^{[2
]}

Guillen, Pablo ^{[1
]}

Lopez del Paso, Rafael

机构：

[1] Univ Sydney, Fac Econ & Business, Discipline Econ, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

[2] Univ Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain

来源：

ECONOMICS LETTERS | 2008年 / 99卷 / 02期

关键词：

decision making under risk; GRE test; math skills;

D O I：

10.1016/j.econlet.2007.08.008

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We study whether math ability affects decision making under risk. Participants where divided in three math skill groups according to their performance in a GRE-like math test. We find no difference in behavior between groups across several risk measuring tasks. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：332 / 336

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