This study validates a survey-based measure of general risk attitude by an incentive compatible experiment among more than 900 participants in rural Thailand. The survey measure of self-assessed risk attitude provides a useful approximation of the experimentally derived risk attitude. This holds...

This study validates a survey-based measure of general risk attitude by an incentive compatible experiment among more than 900 participants in rural Thailand. The survey measure of self-assessed risk attitude provides a useful approximation of the experimentally derived risk attitude. This holds...

Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Rolle von Risikopräferenzen, Anreizen und Governance-Strukturen beim Einsatz von Pestiziden in der Gemüseproduktion in China. Das erste Kapitel stellt den allgemeinen Hintergrund der Dissertation und die wichtigsten Forschungsfragen der Studie vor....