We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion …

stimulate effort. Through a real-effort artefactual field experiment with factory workers and university students as a … comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational …

abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon … early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …

Using a unique field experiment from Canada, we estimate individual preference over risk and time and show considerable …

-scale experiment. Choices react significantly to the stakes and to the size of the choice set. Our experiment rationalizes the gender …

section for very small amounts. -- Risk attitude ; incentives ; decision ; experiment …Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

. -- Ratio bias ; financial incentives ; error rates ; experiment … once order effects are excluded, and once salient and dominant incentives are provided. This holds true for both choice and …