%0 Report %A Bonin, Holger %A Constant, Amelie F. %A Tatsiramos, Konstantinos %A Zimmermann, Klaus F. %T Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes %D 2006 %8 2006 Mar %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 1999 %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1999 %X 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. %K second-generation effects %K risk attitudes %K ethnicity %K native-migrant differences %K gender differences