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Finan, Frederico; Schechter, Laura - eSocialSciences - 2009

for the study is a survey information on vote-buying experienced in a 2006 municipal election in Paraguay, with …

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Trust, trustworthiness, and risk in rural Paraguay

Schechter, Laura - In: Experimental Economics 9 (2006) 2, pp. 173-173

. Using a unique survey from rural Paraguay which combines traditional data on production with information on theft, gifts … Paraguay, the traditional trust experiment and a new experiment measuring only risk aversion. I find that risk attitudes are …

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Risk aversion and expected-utility theory: A calibration exercise

Schechter, Laura - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 35 (2007) 1, pp. 67-76

Rabin (Econometrica 68(5):1281–1292, <CitationRef CitationID="CR19">2000</CitationRef>) argues that, under expected-utility, observed risk aversion over modest stakes implies extremely high risk aversion over large stakes. Cox and Sadiraj (Games Econom. Behav. 56(1):45–60, <CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2006</CitationRef>) have replied that this is a problem of expected-utility...</citationref></citationref>

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