Direct evidence on risk attitudes and migration

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 684-689

  Jaeger, David A ^a   Dohmen, Thomas ^b   Falk, Armin ^c   Huffman, David ^d   Sunde, Uwe ^e   Bonin, Holger ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^f ZEW and IZA ^*  (Germany)

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EID: 77955154906     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00020     Document Type: Article

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