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Risky Health Choices and the Balloon Economic Risk Protocol

Fairley, Kim - 2018

Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) - which is highly successful in predicting health-related risk behaviors such as alcohol use …

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Impact of health shocks on personality traits, economic preferences, and risky behaviors

Marsaudon, Antoine - 2019

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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...

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On the (ir)relevance of monetary incentives in risk preference elicitation experiments

Hackethal, Andreas; Kirchler, Michael; Laudenbach, Christine - 2020

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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,...

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On the role of monetary incentives in risk preference elicitation experiments

Hackethal, Andreas; Kirchler, Michael; Laudenbach, Christine - 2022

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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution

Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Gomez Mahecha, John; … - 2020

We examine the relationship between contemporaneous fine particulate matter exposure and COVID-19 morbidity and mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind direction, we show that arguably exogenous fluctuations in...

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Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes

Averett, Susan L. - 2015

We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...

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The usual suspects : does risk tolerance, altruism, and health predict the response to COVID-19?

Sheth, Ketki; Wright, Greg C. - 2020

find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …-existing health conditions may not voluntarily comply, resulting in higher health care congestion than otherwise expected. …

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Does a spouse's health shock influence the partner's risk attitudes?

Kokot, Johanna - 2017

's health shock (i.e., the occurrence of a severe disease) can influence own expectations about the probability of falling ill …The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a spouse's health shock on own risk attitudes. A spouse …, a health shock may act as a wake-up call to enjoy life and may increase risk willingness. Using German Socio Economic …

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