De Blasio, Guido; De Paola, Maria; Poy, Samuele; … - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become an entrepreneur. In contrast to previous … variation in risk aversion the early exposure to a massive earthquake. Using several waves of the Bank of Italy Survey of … Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), we find that individuals experiencing an earthquake become significantly more risk averse …