Wik, Mette; Kebede, Tewodros Aragie; Bergland, Olvar; … - In: Applied Economics 36 (2004) 21, pp. 2443-2451
Attitudes towards risk are measured for households in Northern Zambia using an experimental gambling approach with real payoffs that at maximum were equal to 30% of average total annual income per capita. The results of the experiment show decreasing absolute risk aversion and increasing partial...