. This result is robust to the inclusion of individual risk measures and a broad array of controls. The findings also support …

data from representative surveys and artefactual or lab-on-the-field experiments in Lima, Peru. We employ three standard …We provide empirical evidence supporting a causal link between education and risk attitudes when using representative … experimental measures of risk attitudes and find that each is positively correlated with years of education. Furthermore, we …

We study how individuals' memories of inflation shape their expectations about future inflation using both surveys and … laboratory experiments. Recalling having lived through prior disinflations has pronounced effects on how long-lived people expect … their beliefs much like the inflation experienced in real life. Methodologically, we compare and contrast surveys and lab …

performance. For the reliable attribution of causality, however, surveys and field experiments, combined in a variety of mixed …In examining the study of government performance, this paper asks whether field experiments can improve the explanatory … precision of results generated by public opinion surveys. Survey research on basic health and education services sub …

We compare seven established risk elicitation methods and investigate how robustly they explain eleven kinds of risky … behavior with 760 individuals. Risk measures are positively correlated; however, their performance in explaining behavior is … heterogeneous and, therefore, difficult to assess ex ante. Greater diversification across risk measures is conducive to closing this …

willingness of men and women to make risky decisions on behalf of a group, (2) the amount of risk men and women take for the group … lower fraction of women being willing to make the group decision than men. The amount of risk taken for the group is … like to make the group decision and the women that do not are no different in terms of how much risk they take for …

three experiments (N = 1,993): in a preliminary experiment, we vary the payoffs over a large range. In our first main … our experiments and the complementary analyses is that cooperation in a PD increases with the gains of mutual cooperation …

This paper explores the effect of personality traits on: (1) the willingness to make risk-taking decisions on behalf of … a group, (2) the nature of "choice shifts", i.e. the difference between the amount of risk taken in the group context …. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …