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Health shocks and risk aversion
Decker, Simon; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2015
follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381274
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Health Shocks and Risk Aversion
Decker, Simon - 2015
follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009820
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Health Shocks and Risk Aversion
Decker, Simon - 2015
follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010890
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Health shocks and risk aversion
Decker, Simon; Schmitz, Hendrik - In: Journal of health economics 50 (2016), pp. 156-170
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588911
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Depression, risk preferences and risk-taking behavior
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2019
experiencing a depressive episode report less willingness to take risks in general, but more willingness to take health risks, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999014
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Depression, risk preferences and risk-taking behavior
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2019
experiencing a depressive episode report less willingness to take risks in general, but more willingness to take health risks, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022446
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Are you what you eat? : healthy behaviour and risk preferences
Galizzi, Matteo M.; Miraldo, Marisa - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 17 (2017) 1, pp. 1-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655603
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On the role of monetary incentives in risk preference elicitation experiments
Hackethal, Andreas; Kirchler, Michael; Laudenbach, Christine - 2020
Incentivized experiments in which individuals receive monetary rewards according to the outcomes of their decisions are regarded as the gold standard for preference elicitation in experimental economics. These task-related real payments are considered necessary to reveal subjects' "true...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262354
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On the (ir)relevance of monetary incentives in risk preference elicitation experiments
Hackethal, Andreas; Kirchler, Michael; Laudenbach, Christine - 2020
Incentivized experiments in which individuals receive monetary rewards according to the outcomes of their decisions are regarded as the gold standard for preference elicitation in experimental economics. These task-related real payments are considered necessary to reveal subjects' "true...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267510
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Why do people buy insurance? : a modern answer to an old question
Fels, Markus - 2021
I revisit the question of which motive underlies insurance demand. I draw on the literature of state-dependent utility and on the literature of imperfectly divisible consumption to argue that the general purpose of insurance is not a risk transfer, but meeting a conditional need. In this way,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330729