-care infrastructure concerning children, which either fosters or restricts a sustainable risk management between family and work in the …

This study examines whether people optimally respond to prize incentives for risk taking in tournaments. I exploit the … the degree of risk taking depending on the incentives implied by the prize structure they face. I find that they are more …

A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in … environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature … use of a unique representative data set, we find clear evidence that risk aversion has a highly significant and …

We survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty …

We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual …-level risk-taking in pursuing productivity-enhancing activities including using and developing new knowledge. Individual …-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct risk-sharing institutions – even those providing the same level of insurance – can lead to …

This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap …. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes towards economic risk, it shows that females are … much more risk averse than males. It then extends this research to show that workers with more favorable attitudes towards …

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 …