practices between schools. Tentative analyses also indicate that counselors reduce students' uncertainty about their own … individual preferences at least to the same extent as uncertainty about objective measures such as employment prospects. …

with the hypothesis that illegal immigrants are risk-averse agents who transfer more money to their home country as a … mechanism to insure themselves against higher degrees of uncertainty within their host countries. Furthermore, this finding …

it is due to greater uncertainty faced by agents. Applying the methodology of Cunha, Heckman, and Navarro (2005) to data … predictable and unpredictable components of earnings have increased in recent years. The increase in uncertainty is substantially … greater for unskilled workers. For less skilled workers, roughly 60% of the increase in wage variability is due to uncertainty …

This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about …

According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i …) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii …

of religious behaviour towards "Theoi" in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty …, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the source of uncertainty by sacrificing towards it. In our … uncertainty is lower. The findings imply that under circumstances of high uncertainty people are willing to sacrifice large …

variability in returns to schooling is forecastable. This has important implications for using measured variability to price risk …