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Probability and Risk: Foundations and Economic Implications of Probability-Dependent Risk Preferences
Fehr-Duda, Helga; Epper, Thomas - In: Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 567-593
A large body of evidence has documented that risk preferences depend nonlinearly on outcome probabilities. We discuss the foundations and economic consequences of probability-dependent risk preferences and offer a practitioner's guide to understanding and modeling probability dependence. We...
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Risk and Rationality - Effects of contextual risk and cognitive dissonance on (sexual) incentives
Mannberg, Andréa - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010
results suggest that, for individuals with limited access to HIV treatment, uncertainty of future health may be an important … expected income and health and future uncertainty are significant determinants of current patterns of sexual risk taking …. However, the empirical results only provide limited support to a link between expected health and sexual risk taking. Paper …
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A cross-country analysis of the risk factors for depression at the micro and macro level
Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2009
Past research has provided evidence of the role of personal characteristics as risk factors for depression. However, few researches examined jointly the impact of each characteristic and whether country attributes change the probability of being depressed. This is due to the use of...
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A Cross-Country Analysis of the Risk Factors for Depression at the Micro and Macro Level
Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Maximo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Past research has provided evidence of the role of some personal characteristics as risk factors for depression. However, few studies have examined jointly their specific impact and whether country characteristics change the probability of being depressed. In general, this is due to the use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677195
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Risk aversion in medical decision making: a survey
Chicaíza, Liliana; García, Mario; Romano, Giancarlo - In: Lecturas de Economía (2011) 75, pp. 163-185
This article surveys the literature on risk aversion in medical decision making. The search covered Econlit, Jstor Science Direct and Springer Link since 1985. The results are classified in three topics: Risk aversion in the frameworks of Expected Utility and Rank Dependent Expected Utility...
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Family Structure and the Risk of Nursing Home Admission.
Freedman, V.A. - RAND - 1996
Using data from the New Haven EPESE, we examine the relationship between family structure and the risk of first nursing home admission.
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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011
suffer relatively more from a given health shock. This result holds across a wide range of different health shocks and our …In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market … hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our results suggest large heterogeneity in the effects, where low educated individuals …
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Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings. Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suer relatively more from a given health shock. These …In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results suggest …
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Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings: Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market …. These results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results …
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Kurz zum Klima: Klimawandel und die Ausbreitung von Krankheiten – übertriebene Angst oder Wirklichkeit?
Lippelt, Jana - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 04, pp. 55-59
Der Klimawandel und dessen Folgen für die menschliche Gesundheit sind bereits seit einiger Zeit in den Fokus der …
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