this relation is driven by a link between internal economic locus of control and a lower perception of the risk of …

policy relevant outcomes and policy effects, that of the wage premia for fatal injury risk. Estimates of the overall hedonic …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …

risk differ between agents and the econometrician. Our tests are based on panel data elicited yearly from British … ; income risk ; limited information variances …

We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply … a life-cycle model with search frictions, we show that the estimated changes in risk can account for 85 percent of the … increase in within group wage inequality. The welfare costs of rising risk are small. …

producing human capital. We also demonstrate that this attenuation effect tends to concentrate generational consumption risk … into an i.i.d. generational consumption shock. In other words, each generation bears all of the risk associated with their …