degree of pessimism of the representative agent is the mean of the individual ones weighted by their index of absolute risk …

We present a psychometric scale that assesses risk taking in five content domains: financial decisions (separately for … consistency is evaluated for a sample of American undergraduate students. As expected, respondents' degree of risk taking was … highly domain-specific, i.e. not consistently risk-averse or consistently risk-seeking across all content domains. Women …

increases and decreases in environmental health risk probabilities, for increases and decreases in costs, and reference … possible cost and health risk change combinations using data from our choice-based experiment for a nationally representative …