centuries from today is new to the empirical literature on discounting and, with the appropriate risk adjustment, of relevance …

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 …

stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … prone to divorce exhibit risk-taking behavior that is more similar to that of single men than married men in environments …

I study attitudes towards risk taking in cases where a person relates to others positively, namely altruistically. This … this person's risk-taking behavior differ if the utility of another person does not enter his utility function? Does being …? Specifically, holding constant other variables, I ask: is an altruistic person more risk averse or less risk averse than a …

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 …

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. … surge in the stock market would be self-correcting. Recent papers have discussed the role of "uncertainty" and its …