Entwicklungsländern aufgrund von Armut und mangelhaften landwirtschaftlichen Versicherungen noch komplexer. Landwirte mit niedrigem … issues are more complex in developing countries due to poverty and shortcomings in agricultural insurances. Poor farmers who …

Many economic decision situations of foresters and farmers are characterized by risk. Thereby, the individual risk … sufficiently tested. Furthermore, existing analyses focus mostly on students and the field of resource economics for farmers …. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the risk attitude of foresters and how it compares to farmers and students …

This thesis contributes to the understanding of the economic decision making of farmers. In five chapters, different … preference are applied to analyze farmers’ decision-making behavior. Especially, the possibilities of field applications of these …

The papers of the dissertation focus on decision making under uncertainty of farmers in developed and developing … paper experimentally examines the investment and disinvestment behavior of German farmers using an investment situation in … an agricultural context, while the second paper analyzes the investment behavior of Ugandan farmers using an investment …

This cross-country study compares risk and time preferences of farmers from two lower-middle income countries, India … country. Hence, we could investigate whether the individual preferences of farmers from two countries with similar income … acceptance of development programs. Our study involved 1,528 farmers. The risk and time preferences were elicited using …

A farmer’s uncertainty preferences can play a large role in how he makes production decisions on the farm. We attempt … to understand how farmers’ household characteristics as well as past harvest shocks affect uncertainty preferences of … maize farmers in southern Mexico. By using a series of incentivized lottery games, we estimate coefficients that correspond …