investigation of the underlying mechanisms reveals that emotional attachment and intergenerational transmission of risk attitudes …

the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the "Click" version of the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task, in which …

individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery and self-assessment of risk attitude on a 0-10 scale. We confirm … familiar findings: risk aversion dominates, women are more risk averse than men, risk aversion decreases with increasing …

Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … paper reports instead between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability … prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

required for the creation or extension of any large retail store in France. We exploit a unique database that provides time and …

stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …

Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … vocational high school. Accounting for risk does little to change this picture. By contrast, vocational high school is associated …

This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch … university graduates provides evidence which supports this contention. It thereby raises the possibility that even risk …

assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and … risk are moderately heritable, with about 20 percent of the variation in these attitudes across individuals being linked to …) and Zhong, Chew, Set, Zhang, Xue, Sham, Ebstein and Israel (2009). While females are more risk averse than males, there is …