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of a health care management consulting intervention. One set of PHCs received a detailed improvement plan and nine months …
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rate contracts in the presence of output risk, and provide novel insights that reference dependent preferences affect the … tradeoff between risk and incentives. Subjects in our experiments choose their compensation for performing a real-effort task … from a menu of linear piece rate and fixed payment combinations. As classical principal-agent models predict, more risk …
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We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...
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national security as of March 2022. Fourth, firm-level risk perceptions skewed heavily to the downside in spring 2020 but …
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non-cognitive outcomes: risk preferences, patience, creativity and attention/focus. Our main finding is that chess … training reduces the level of risk aversion almost a year after the intervention ended. We also find that chess training …, these (non-risk preference) results are less conclusive once we account for multiple hypothesis testing. We do not find any …
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When formal insurance is unavailable, mutual insurance among households can serve as an alternative. This paper analyzes a game between economic agents facing uncertainty and maximizing discounted utility without enforceable contracts or access to capital markets. While autarky is always a...
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-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated … with the wage dispersion of an individual's occupation. -- dispersion estimation ; earnings risk ; censoring ; quantile …
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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 …
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. Implications for risk management policies are discussed. …We run a novel experiment to explore the relationship between the perception of real-life risks and the demand for risk … life. For each risk, subjects can pay premiums in order to reduce the likelihood of total bankruptcy. Our results show a …
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in a model with non-durable and durable consumption. The stock of the durable is exposed to risk against which households … because agents can time-diversify their risk. Market insurance implies welfare gains of around .6% in terms of non …-durable consumption. Introducing labor income risk into the model does not necessarily increase the importance of market insurance if the …
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