This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its …

virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges … worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate …

although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … effects of risk using a stochastic version of the Ramsey model. We develop a simulation-based econometric methodology which … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …

The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess thevariance in the rate of return by surveying … skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …

We develop a method to estimate domain-specific risk. We apply the method to sickness insurance by fitting a utility … risk aversion increases with income. Second, marginal utility is higher in the sick state conditional on income, due to an … observed fixed cost of sickness. Third, the domain-specificity of risk shifts the focus on the smoothing of utility, not …

Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … vocational high school. Accounting for risk does little to change this picture. By contrast, vocational high school is associated …

increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify changes in risk-independent performance and risk taking, our … increases in risk taking. These effects are concentrated among those closest to the margin of elimination and among lower …

disparities - which hitherto has received limited attention - is the risk people face about their future health. This paper … integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement which measures the extent to which disparities in realized health are … account for risk averse preferences in the assessment of income-related health inequalities. The empirical application using …