Transmission of risk preferences from mothers to daughters
研究通过母亲和7-8岁孩子参与的风险偏好实验，发现风险偏好在母女间存在相关性，且母亲参与度显著调节这一关联，支持社会化在代际传递中的作用。
We study the transmission of risk attitudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We document that risk preferences are correlated between mothers and children when the children are just 7–8 years old. This correlation is only present for daughters. We further show that a measure of maternal involvement is a strong moderator of the association between mothers’ and daughters’ risk tolerance. This is consistent with a role for socialization and parental investment in the intergenerational transmission of risk preferences.