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Risk Preferences Under Extreme Poverty : A Field Experiment

Caballero, Gustavo Adolfo - 2011

Until now, the dominant belief concerning the relationship between poverty and risk aversion is that the poor are more risk averse. If the poor are more risk averse, then they will choose “low risk-low return” activities that trap them in poverty. However, both empirical and experimental...

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The relationship between cognitive ability and risk preferences in a developing nation : findings from the field

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022

We find a strong relationship between risk-loving preferences and cognitive ability which becomes stronger as adherence to the generalized axiom of revealed preference (a proxy for rationality) increases. Our results are taken from a field study of individuals at the very bottom of the income...

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Income inequality and risk taking

Schmidt, Ulrich; Neyse, Levent; Aleknonyte, Milda - 2015

Standard economic theory assumes that individual risk taking decisions are independent from the social context. Recent experimental evidence however shows that the income of peers has a systematic impact on observed degrees of risk aversion. In particular, subjects strive for balance in the...

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Shocks and stability of risk preferences

Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin - 2021

While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed that indicates that risk preferences respond to shocks. This paper combines survey data and field experiments with three different tools...

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Brexit, collective uncertainty and migration decisions

Auer, Daniel; Tetlow, Daniel - 2020

landscape. Uncertainty and perceptions are influential drivers when it comes to migration decisions, and yet, the literature … simultaneously associated with uncertainty perceptions. We leverage the British referendum of 2016 to leave the European Union as a … unique natural experiment to demonstrate how collective uncertainty, induced by national government policy, affects the …

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Subjective expectations and medical testing

Jouini, Elyès; Napp, Clotilde - In: Economics letters 135 (2015), pp. 39-41

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Biased lung cancer risk perceptions : smokers are misinformed

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 238 (2018) 5, pp. 395-421

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Brexit, collective uncertainty and migration decisions

Auer, Daniel; Tetlow, Daniel - 2020

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A field study of Chinese migrant workers' attitudes toward risks, strategic uncertainty, and competitiveness

Hao, Li; Houser, Daniel; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014

more likely to enter competition in the presence of strategic uncertainty when they expect competitive entries from others … competitive environment than by risk attitudes under state uncertainty. …

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Financial literacy, risk and time preferences - results from a randomized educational intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2020 - This version: 1 August 2020

We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...

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