-occupancy propensities is driven by risk aversion, as it is assumed in most of the theoretical models, or on the contrary it is driven by … driven by households? risk aversion, while credit constraints play no role. …

sizable effect of risk on accumulation and pronounced interactions between wealth and risk. The presented evidence is …

the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more …

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred … homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We allow endogenous schooling attainments to affect the level of risk … experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk …

benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected gain for risk neutral individuals, they work as … an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the results for the two groups might differ. Thus, the migration decision … is reformulated as monetary lottery and a utility function exhibiting constant relative risk aversion is applied. The …

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing … of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the … as men. Psychological variables account for some of the interpersonal variation in risk aversion. They explain none of …

We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative …. We consider two applications: patience and risk aversion. We argue that parenting styles may be important for explaining … why different groups or societies develop different attitudes towards human capital formation, entrepreneurship, and …