Risk Attitude and Nonmarital Birth

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Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Struewing

Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2016,
(IZA DP No. 10316)

Abstract

Using data of adult women from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that risk tolerance is associated with a higher probability of an out-of-partnership birth. In contrast, we find no association between risk tolerance and the probability of a cohabiting birth.

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Keywords: risk attitude, out-of-partnership birth, cohabiting birth
Externer Link:
http://ftp.iza.org/dp10316.pdf

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