Willingness to compete: Family matters

Management Science

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2149-2162

  Almås, Ingvild ^a,b   Cappelen, Alexander W ^b   Salvanes, Kjell G ^b   Sørensen, Erik Ø ^b   Tungodden, Bertil ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Family background; Lab experiment; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

COMPETITIVENESS; FAMILY BACKGROUND; GENDER DIFFERENCES; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; RISK PREFERENCE; SOCIAL PREFERENCE; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; TIME PREFERENCES;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84983070153     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2015.2244     Document Type: Article

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