TY - RPRT AU - Bonin, Holger AU - Constant, Amelie F. AU - Tatsiramos, Konstantinos AU - Zimmermann, Klaus F. TI - Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes PY - 2006/Mar/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 1999 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1999 AB - 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. KW - second-generation effects KW - risk attitudes KW - ethnicity KW - native-migrant differences KW - gender differences ER -