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Venue address: ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management, R. Francesinhas 21, 1200-675 Lisboa, Portugal
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 17th Sept 2026, 11:40:19am WEST
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D01: Preferences, Policies and Inequality Location: Room 101 (Francesinhas 1) | |
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Do Preferences Create Inequality? University of Copenhagen, CEBI, Denmark This talk asks whether economic inequality reflects not only differences in skills and constraints, but also systematic heterogeneity in preferences. Drawing on three linked papers, we scale incentivized experiments to population-representative samples and link experimentally elicited time, risk, and social preferences to administrative data. We show that patience predicts wealth accumulation: more patient individuals save more and accumulate substantially higher wealth, accounting for a meaningful share of wealth inequality. Preferences also shape human capital investments: patient individuals choose longer programs with steeper earnings growth, while risk-averse individuals select fields with lower earnings dispersion, even after controlling for ability and family background. Finally, risk tolerance strongly predicts criminal behavior, particularly property crime. Taken together, the evidence suggests that preference heterogeneity generates persistent divergence in economic outcomes and may imply heterogeneous—and potentially regressive—effects of incentive-based public policies.
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