Risk tolerance and altruism: evidence on their relationship from Germany

Tim Friehe; Christian Pfeifer

doi:10.1080/13504851.2025.2536709

Risk tolerance and altruism: evidence on their relationship from Germany

Tim Friehe^*
, Christian Pfeifer

^*Corresponding author for this work

Professorship of Economics, Applied Microeconomics

University of Marburg

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Abstract

This article explores the nexus between risk tolerance and altruism. Using information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find a statistically and economically significant positive correlation between risk tolerance and proxies for altruism conditional on a long covariate vector.

Original language	English
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Number of pages	5
ISSN	1350-4851
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2025.2536709
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2025

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Research areas and keywords

altruism
Risk aversion
SOEP

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Economics and Econometrics

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Risk tolerance and altruism: evidence on their relationship from Germany

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