individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery and self-assessment of risk attitude on a 0-10 scale. We confirm … familiar findings: risk aversion dominates, women are more risk averse than men, risk aversion decreases with increasing …

Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … paper reports instead between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability … prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different … willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been validated in previous work. As a measure of earnings risk, we use … relating earnings risk to the measure of individual risk preference, our evidence shows that individuals with low willingness …

-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated …

This study examines whether people optimally respond to prize incentives for risk taking in tournaments. I exploit the … the degree of risk taking depending on the incentives implied by the prize structure they face. I find that they are more …

risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed … to attitudes towards risk taking. …

assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and … risk are moderately heritable, with about 20 percent of the variation in these attitudes across individuals being linked to …) and Zhong, Chew, Set, Zhang, Xue, Sham, Ebstein and Israel (2009). While females are more risk averse than males, there is …

accepting a bribe that leads to a higher present period income while facing the risk of being audited and being left with a … considerable lower income in all subsequent periods. Because risk attitudes might differ when putting earned versus endowed income … at risk, we compare treatments where participants either receive an endowment beforehand, or earn their income by …