Arbeitspapier
The effect of the social environment during childhood on preferences in adulthood
Preferences are key for shaping decision-making, yet it remains an open question where preferences originate from. We investigate the causal effect of the childhood social environment on adults' preferences. We utilize a natural experiment in Denmark, which randomized refugees to different neighbourhoods in the 1990s. We experimentally measure risk, time, and social preferences of adult refugees who were children at the time of arrival in Denmark. Using rich administrative register data on the entire Danish population we can measure a very broad range of aspects of the childhood social environment. We find that the randomly allocated childhood environment significantly affects adults' preferences, in particular, patience.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IFRO Working Paper ; No. 2023/03
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: General
Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General‡
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- Thema
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Preference formation
natural experiment
register data
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Abeler, Johannes
Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt
Gårn Hansen, Lars
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)
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Copenhagen
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Abeler, Johannes
- Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt
- Gårn Hansen, Lars
- University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)
Entstanden
- 2023
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