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 …

early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior …We investigate one possible explanation for observed rates of corrupt behavior namely that individual decision makers … abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon …

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that … Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk …

We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a … laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii) behavior in naturally-occurring field behavior under risk (financial, health and … employment decisions). We find that measures of risk attitude are related to behavior in laboratory financial decisions and the …

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 …

chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables … than 50 employees, we find extensive evidence of a negative association between female CEO and firm's risk attitudes. This … risk aversion profile and put more effort in monitoring firm activities than men in the financial matter domains. A number …

representative survey of firm managers. Risk-tolerant and risk-averse decision makers have significantly different training …We provide the first estimates of the impact of managers' risk preferences on their training allocation decisions. Our … conceptual framework links managers' risk preferences to firms' training decisions through the bonuses they expect to receive …

are too impatient to save and too risk averse to take the sort of chances needed to accumulate wealth. The empirical … the issues confounding previous analyses of the links between risk preferences and well-being. Our sample includes more …, Montevideo, San José. In addition to the experiment which reveals interesting cross-country differences, participants completed …

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use … patterns. Our findings indicate that risk-loving and skilled people are more mobile over longer distances because they are more … distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals …