We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural … disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in Indonesia and find that … individuals who recently suffered a flood or earthquake exhibit more risk aversion than individuals living in otherwise like …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …

sizable effect of risk on accumulation and pronounced interactions between wealth and risk. The presented evidence is …

criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and … disciplines: risk aversion, conscientiousness, and high self-control make criminal behavior less likely. Our results illustrate …

personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and …

We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in … Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences …. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk aversion do not affect trust, loss aversion influences trust …

risk. I investigate the robustness of their result to the experimental design. I find that the effect disappears completely …