are too impatient to save and too risk averse to take the sort of chances needed to accumulate wealth. The empirical … the issues confounding previous analyses of the links between risk preferences and well-being. Our sample includes more … on risk preferences, we find little evidence of robust links between risk aversion and well-being. However, when we …

We provide empirical evidence supporting a causal link between education and risk attitudes when using representative … experimental measures of risk attitudes and find that each is positively correlated with years of education. Furthermore, we … boom in the construction of new schools in Lima, providing evidence that more education may increase risk attitudes. Our …

impact of the program on risk attitudes and investment behavior of small-scale rice farmers in relatively poor North … the program significantly makes farmers less risk-averse, induces higher investments and boosts incomes. Medium …

Risk attitude and perception is reflected in brain reactions during RPID experiments. Given the fMRI data, an important … research question is how to detect risk related regions and to investigate the relation between risk preferences and brain … method improves the quality of spatial representations and guarantees the contiguity of risk related regions. The selected …