Decisions from Description and Experience

Short Description The SOEP-IS Risk Module consists of two incentive-compatible behavioral risk taking tasks involving described and experienced risk and extends the GSOEP by providing an assessment of individual differences that may predict real-world outcomes such as employment, financial, and health decisions that are partly guided by individuals’ risk tendencies.

Experimental Details: An online demonstration of the risk taking tasks in German can be found on Renato Frey’s personal website.

Available Papers
  • Cobb-Clark, Deborah A., Sarah Dahmann, and Nathan Kettlewell. 2019. Depression, Risk Preferences and Risk-Taking Behavior. SOEPpapers 1038 . Berlin: DIW Berlin. (Also published in 2019: IZA Discussion Paper No. 12285. Bonn: IZA Institute of Labor Economics).;

  • Frey, Renato, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp, Ralph Hertwig, and Rui Mata. 2020. Identifying robust correlates of risk preference: A systematic approach using specification curve analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (online first). (https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000287)

Find the proposal for the module here

Contact

Syear

Respondents

Dataset

Variables

Availability

Field

Method

Replication

Rui Mata (University of Basel)

2014

~950

irisk

outcome2_b, sample_ind, condition, sample_out, outcome2_c, decision_box, task, gamble, sample_box, probab1_a, probab2_a, im_risk, probab2_c, sample_opt, outcome, task_order, outcome1_c, nroption, probab2_b, outcome2_a, react_time, outcome2_d, ch_option, outcome1_a, probab1_b, outcome1_d, riskier, trail, probab2_d, time, higher_opt, probab1_d, outcome1_b, decision, probab1_c

04/2017

Psychology

Experiment