on the exact design of the law. Consistent with rational, risk-based pricing, the effect on returns seems to be linked to … how firms share systematic risk with their employees under the respective laws. Firms in states with WDLs prohibiting … employers from acting in bad faith have more intra-firm risk sharing and lower expected returns. Vaguer legislation that …

Probabilistic risk beliefs are key drivers of economic and health decisions, but people are not always certain about … measurable separately from the levels of risk beliefs. People with higher levels of imprecision update their beliefs more in …

risk differ between agents and the econometrician. Our tests are based on panel data elicited yearly from British … ; income risk ; limited information variances …

competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these behavioral biases and preferences explain gender differences in … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, is systematically related with expectations about future earnings: individuals …

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 …

with the wage dispersion of an individual's occupation. -- dispersion estimation ; earnings risk ; censoring ; quantile …-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 …

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large … adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have the same risk tolerance as adolescents from non-separated families …. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …