Members of German Federal Parliament More Risk-Loving Than General Population


Heß, Moritz ; Scheve, Christian von ; Schupp, Jürgen ; Wagner, Gert G.


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Document Type: Working paper
Year of publication: 2013
The title of a journal, publication series: SOEP papers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research
Volume: 546
Place of publication: Berlin
Publishing house: DIW
ISSN: 1864-6689
Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences- CDSS (Social Sciences)
Subject: 300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
320 Political science
Abstract: The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in relation to respondents to the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the survey year 2009 (2002 through 2012). Compared with the population surveyed in the SOEP, members of the German parliament display a considerably higher general risk appetite, which is highly significant. For different areas of risk, last surveyed in the SOEP in 2009, the members of parliament had significantly stronger risk-loving attitudes across virtually all indicators and risk categories surveyed than the comparison groups of SOEP respondents.
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