Maternal Longevity and the Sex of Offspring: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Sweden
Cesarini, David, Lindqvist, Erik, Wallace, Björn
Helle et al. (2002) used data from Finnish parish records to study the cost of bearing sons vis-à-vis daughters in terms of postmenopausal longevity and found a large and significant cost associated...
Heritability of ultimatum game responder behavior
Wallace, Björn, Cesarini, David, Lichtenstein, Paul, Johannesson, Magnus
Experimental evidence suggests that many people are willing to deviate from materially maximizing strategies to punish unfair behavior. Even though little is known about the origins of such fairness...
Billiards and Brains: Cognitive Ability and Behavior in a p-Beauty Contest
Burnham, Terence C., Cesarini, David, Wallace, Björn, Johannesson, Magnus, Lichtenstein, Paul
"Beauty contests" are well-studied, dominance-solvable games that generate two interesting results. First, most behavior does not conform to the unique Nash equilibrium. Second, there is considerable...
Confidence Interval Estimation Tasks and the Economics of Overconfidence
Cesarini, David, Sandewall, Örjan, Johannesson, Magnus
Experiments in psychology, where subjects estimate confidence intervals to a series of factual questions, have shown that individuals report far too narrow intervals. This has been interpreted as...
Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust game
Cesarini, David, Dawes, Christopher T., Fowler, James H., Johannesson, Magnus, Lichtenstein, Paul, Wallace, Björn
Although laboratory experiments document cooperative behavior in humans, little is known about the extent to which individual differences in cooperativeness result from genetic and environmental...
Is Financial Risk-Taking Behavior Genetically Transmitted?
Cesarini, David, Johannesson, Magnus, Lichtenstein, Paul, Sandewall, Örjan, Wallace, Björn
In this paper, we use a sample of almost 30,000 Swedish mono- and dizygotic twins to study the heritability of financial risk-taking. Following a major pension reform in the year 2000, virtually all...