Math skills and risk attitudes

Branas-Garza, Pablo, Guillen, Pablo and López del Paso, Rafael (2008) Math skills and risk attitudes. Economics Letters, 99 (2) . pp. 332-336. ISSN 0165-1765 [Article] (doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2007.08.008)

Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2007.08.008

Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords (uncontrolled):	Decision making under risk; GRE test; math skills
Research Areas:	A. > Business School > Economics
Item ID:	10237
Depositing User:	Pablo Branas Garza
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2013 08:22
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2018 14:07
URI:	https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/10237

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