A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in … environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature … use of a unique representative data set, we find clear evidence that risk aversion has a highly significant and …

non-cognitive outcomes: risk preferences, patience, creativity and attention/focus. Our main finding is that chess … training reduces the level of risk aversion almost a year after the intervention ended. We also find that chess training …, these (non-risk preference) results are less conclu-sive once we account for multiple hypothesis testing. We do not find any …

A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in … environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature … use of a unique representative data set, we find clear evidence that risk aversion has a highly significant and …

We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better …, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse parents have a stronger preference for sons than for daughters …. Second, after the birth of their children, parents with sons are more risk seeking, compared to parents with daughters. We …