Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …

channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a vital role in driving effective climate change mitigation and … document the existing evidence on the impacts of climate change damages, and the effects of climate change mitigation and … of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also …

, while the situation reverses afterwards. Over the century, the risk premium correction fosters more mitigation, which … uncertainty into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). Uncertainty is transformed into a risk-premium, damage-correction, region …. This risk premium quantifies what society would be willing to pay to insure against the uncertainty of the damages, and it …

skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess thevariance in the rate of return by surveying …

Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime income at different levels of education. We find that university … education is associated with about a half a million euro increase in discounted lifetime disposable income compared to …

This paper develops a model of risky investment in education under disappointment aversion, modelled as loss aversion … around one's endogenous expectation. The model shows that disappointment aversion reduces the optimal investment in education … generated by the riskiness of education. Policies aimed at influencing students' expectations can reduce early dropout. …

This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly … uncover significant heterogeneity in the returns to education for these workers, which is drastically masked by the … account its substantial risk), and our results corroborate on the claimed importance of human capital in improving these …