We examine whether the experience of shocks influences individual risk attitude. We measure risk attitude via a simple survey item, compiled among more than 4,000 households in Thailand and Vietnam. The experience of adverse shocks, which is typical for poor and vulnerable households, is related...

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....