Noussair, Charles; Trautmann, Stefan T.; Kuilen, Gijs van de - 2011
We conduct an experiment to study the prevalence of the higher order risk attitudes of prudence and temperance, in a … large demographically representative sample, as well as in a sample of undergraduate students. Participants make pairwise … individual’s level of prudence is predictive of his wealth, saving, and borrowing behavior outside of the experiment, while …