Contracting is a contentious issue in agriculture. Competing theories assert that risk or transactions cost drive … contracting decisions, with some argument that autonomy also plays a role. We examine preferences for different contract … transactions cost play a role in contracting decisions. Autonomy also plays a role, especially to the extent that producers wish to …

The risk and time preferences of individuals as well as their subjective expectations regarding the future are likely … to play an important role in choice behaviour. Measurement of these individual characteristics in large-scale surveys has … results of measuring individuals’ attitudes towards inter-temporal choice, risk, and the future in a large-scale field survey …

entrepreneurial and labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect … detrimental effect on entrepreneurial risk-taking. …

willingness of men and women to make risky decisions on behalf of a group, (2) the amount of risk men and women take for the group … lower fraction of women being willing to make the group decision than men. The amount of risk taken for the group is … like to make the group decision and the women that do not are no different in terms of how much risk they take for …