@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp1999, author={Bonin, Holger and Constant, Amelie F. and Tatsiramos, Konstantinos and Zimmermann, Klaus F.}, title={Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes}, year={2006}, month={Mar}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={1999}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1999}, abstract={This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.}, keywords={second-generation effects;risk attitudes;ethnicity;native-migrant differences;gender differences}, }