Experiments measuring risk and time preferences in developing countries have tended to have relatively small samples and geographically concentrated sampling. This largescale field experiment uses a Holt-Laury mechanism to elicit the preferences of 1289 randomly selected subjects from 94...

Experiments measuring risk and time preferences in developing countries have tended to have relatively small samples and geographically concentrated sampling. This large-scale field experiment uses a Holt-Laury mechanism to elicit the preferences of 1289 randomly selected subjects from 94...

According to some simple models of the household, parental transfers should equalize measured risk attitudes amongst family members. We explore the theory behind this notion and then use a Holt-Laury mechanism to compare attitudes to risk amongst 412 teenage children and their parents in 38...