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Title: Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Author(s): Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus F Zimmermann

Publication Date: March 2006

Keyword(s): ethnicity, gender differences, native-migrant differences, risk attitudes and second-generation effects

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Bonin, H, Constant, A, Tatsiramos, K and Zimmermann, K. 2006. 'Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5587