We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion …, utilizing an asset integration protocol designed to ensure that a loss of cash provided by the experimenter is viewed as a real … loss by experimental participants. Our experimental design augments the Holt-Laury risk preference elicitation methodology …

We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We find loss aversion, distinct from risk aversion, has a significant effect on …

Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in … riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure individual-level loss aversion in riskless choices in an … manufacturer). All subjects also participate in a simple lottery choice task which arguably measures loss aversion in risky choices …

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …