of our study was to examine whether and how deep parameters such as time and risk preferences affect the intention to …-earthquake control) on the effect of natural disasters on time and risk preferences. We find unambiguous effects towards more risk …

We study how background health risk affects financial risk-taking. We elicit financial risk-taking behavior of a … infections across time and space, we find that an increase in infections affecting background health risk translates into higher … financial risk-taking, and for the alleviating effect of self-insurance devices …

possible outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes. There is a strong consensus view in the … outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. We find no evidence that the likelihood of reporting about gender …This paper exploits a large dataset of replications of the Holt and Laury (2002) risk elicitation task to study a …

largest part of life cycle wage dynamics. It accounts for 50% of average wage growth, 50% of rising differences between gender …, and virtually all of rising dispersion within gender over the life cycle …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … mass index, are less likely to save money and show worse conduct at school. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity …

so. We find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health …

their individual risk aversion. They choose between a fundamentalist and a trend-following rule to form expectations about … the price of a risky asset. Given their risk aversion, agents make a deterministic trade-off between mean and variance … both in choosing a forecasting heuristic and determining the number of risky assets to buy. Heterogeneous risk preferences …

We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment … with 658 adolescents. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that higher order risk preferences particularly … analysis of students' field behavior would yield largely misleading conclusions about the relation of risk aversion to these …