take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …

form of risk taking aimed at regaining rank, and it is the engagement in risk-taking behavior that is the cause of an … standing) and stress, do not refer to risk taking at all. We present four strands of research that lend support to our …, individuals resort to risk-taking behavior aimed at regaining their lost rank; evidence that there exists a link between …

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using … standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that wealthy individuals are more likely to be entrepreneurs and invest a larger … ways strongly determined by individual risk tolerance. Since the wealthy dominate aggregate risky investment, their risk …

about risk, time-discounting and altruism in variations of two conditions: 'Quantitative First' and 'Qualitative First'. We … patience and altruism while using quantitative items first increases the cross-method correlation for risk and time preferences …

frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are …. Estimates of productivity risk, once we control for employment risk and for individual labour supply choices, are substantially … lower than estimates that attribute all wage variation to productivity risk. Increases in productivity risk impose a …

-employment ; wage-employment ; income distribution ; income risk ; income skew ; income variance ; occupational choice ; labor market …

-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated … with the wage dispersion of an individual's occupation. -- dispersion estimation ; earnings risk ; censoring ; quantile …

and price of unsecured debt. -- household debt portfolios ; housing ; collateral ; bankruptcy ; commitment ; income risk …