TY - RPRT AU - Jirjahn, Uwe AU - Chadi, Cornelia TI - Risk Attitude and Nonmarital Birth PY - 2016/Oct/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 10316 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10316 AB - 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. KW - out-of-partnership birth KW - cohabiting birth KW - risk attitude ER -