additional individual characteristics such as subjects' risk attitudes, measures of self-assessment and overconfidence, social … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …-specific risk attitudes. Seventh, self-selection is also affected by personality differences. Finally, reported effort is …

additional individual characteristics such as subjects' risk attitudes, measures of self-assessment and overconfidence, social … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …-specific risk attitudes. Seventh, self-selection is also affected by personality differences. Finally, reported effort is …

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 …

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 …

This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey … sample of 450 subjects, and find that the measure is a good predictor of actual risk-taking behavior. We then use a more … standard lottery question to measure risk preference, and find similar results regarding heterogeneity and determinants of risk …

This paper presents the Global Preference Survey, a globally representative dataset on risk and time preferences …