and technology R&D. At the same time, they have paid little or no attention to valuing their own work. In What's Economics …

This paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation … in employment risk, the outside options for job seekers undergoing a real recruitment process were randomized by … assigned the lowest employment risk (a guaranteed alternative job), and performance is lowest and effort highest among those …

devel-opment economics literature in recent years. At this stage, however, each study relies on ad hoc empirical instruments …

educated, rich, and proactive individuals were more likely to purchase insurance. Risk aversion was associated with low … risk reduced demand for insurance, particularly when the price of the contract was high, and that provision of insurance …

While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face … essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Insurance was more effective than …