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Higher order risk preferences: new experimental measures, determinants and field behavior

Schneider, Sebastian O.; Sutter, Matthias - 2020

We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment … prudence - are strongly related to adolescents' field behavior, including their financial decision making, eco …-friendly behavior, and health status, including addictive behavior. Most importantly, we show that dropping prudence and temperance from …

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Monitoring and prudence

Beltrametti, Luca F.; Cardullo, Gabriele - 2024

"prudence effect" offers some clues for a more nuanced interpretation of the attitudes towards monitoring by firms and workers. …

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On the optimality of search matching equilibrium when workers are risk averse

Lehmann, Etienne (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Loss aversion and labor supply

Goette, Lorenz (contributor); Huffman, David (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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A note on risk aversion and labour market outcomes : further evidence from German survey data

Pfeifer, Christian (contributor) - 2008

Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job...

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Wellbeing evidence for the assessment of progress

Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence; Peichl, Andreas - 2016

In recent years considerable interest has developed in going 'beyond GDP' to develop measures of economic progress which are more explicitly based on human wellbeing. This work has been inspired, in part, by Sen's non-utilitarian approach to welfare economics, but has been constrained by a lack...

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Income vs. consumption inequality in South Korea : evaluating stochastic dominance rankings by various household attributes

Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - 2013

Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance (SD) tests are performed by year, by household...

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A theory for ranking distribution functions

Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2013

When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...

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Prioritarianism and equality of opportunity

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2021

This paper asks whether prioritarianism - the view that social welfare orderings should give explicit priority to the worse-off - is consistent with the normative theory of equality of opportunity. We show that there are inherent tensions between some of the axioms underpinning prioritarianism...

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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