Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries
Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries
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Oxford University Press
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Patience and risk-taking—two preference components that steer intertemporal decision-making—are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international skill differences, we combine Programme for International Student Assessment tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find that opposing...
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Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries
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TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1093_ej_ueab105
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1093_ej_ueab105
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0013-0133
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1468-0297
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10.1093/ej/ueab105
