We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using … standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that wealthy individuals are more likely to be entrepreneurs and invest a larger … ways strongly determined by individual risk tolerance. Since the wealthy dominate aggregate risky investment, their risk …

about risk, time-discounting and altruism in variations of two conditions: 'Quantitative First' and 'Qualitative First'. We … patience and altruism while using quantitative items first increases the cross-method correlation for risk and time preferences …

parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … anticipate that the market provides compensation for risk, as has been established with Risk Augmented Mincer earnings equations …

, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it … determining the cyclical properties of labor market risk. -- Life-cycle risk ; uncertainty fluctuations ; business cycle …

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

variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …

model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals …

This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster … is consistent with prospect theory predictions of the adoption of a risk-seeking attitude after a loss. -- Decision under … Risk ; Large Losses ; Natural Experiment …

This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by … advanced economies, but not all. Finally, most, but not all, immigrants appear to earn risk premiums similar to natives for …