these two sets of results. This kind of validation of experienced utility via direct comparison with decision utility …

)) to propose a novel identification strategy of the risk aversion parameters and a specification test. We find that … individual search specification implies gender differentials in lifetime utility inequality 74% larger. The results of our policy … experiments emphasize the importance of looking at lifetime utility inequality measures as opposed to simply cross-sectional wage …

hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals … partial identification without relying on functional form restrictions for utility. Identification given general, potentially … in levels of fatal risk. The paper contrasts VSL estimates from conventional analysis with the bounds obtained under this …

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 …

producing human capital.We also demonstrate that this attenuation effect tends to concentrate generational consumption risk … into an i.i.d. generational consumption shock. In other words, each generation bears all of the risk associated with their …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …