Search Results - subject:"RISK COMPENSATION"

Is Sex Like Driving? Risk Compensation Associated with Male Circumcision in Kisumu, Kenya

Wilson, Nicholas Logan; Xiong, Wentao; Mattson, Christine - Economics Department, Williams College - 2011

, concern remains about risk compensation associated with the reduction in the probability of HIV transmission per risky act …. This paper examines the be- havioral response to male circumcision in Kisumu, Kenya. Contrary to the presumption of risk … compensation, we find that the response due to the perceived reduction in HIV transmission appears to have been a reduction in …

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Is Sex Like Driving? Risk Compensation Associated with Male Circumcision in Kisumu, Kenya

Wilson, Nicholas Logan; Xiong, Wentao; Mattson, Christine - Economics Department, Williams College - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357862

Do They Understand the Benefits from Education? Evidence on Dutch High School Students’ Earnings Expectations

Mazza, Jacopo; Hartog, Joop - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

those anticipated by boys. We find no evidence of expected risk compensation. …

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Skewness term-structure tests

Lehnert, Thorsten; Lin, Yuehao - In: Applied mathematical finance 23 (2016) 5/6, pp. 484-504

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Long-term effects of male circumcision on risky sexual behaviors and STD infections : evidence from Malawian schools

Jung, Jaehyun; Kim, Booyuel; Kim, Hyuncheol Bryant; … - 2016

The introduction of risk-reducing technology can lead to unintended consequences, especially when risk compensation can …

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Random risk aversion and the cost of eliminating the foreign exchange risk of the Euro

Azar, Samih A - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 157-168

This paper answers the following questions. If the Euro foreign exchange risk is given, what is the cost of eliminating such a risk? How does risk aversion affect this cost? What is the relation between the insurance premium on the Euro and this cost? Is it possible to find out the level of risk...

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Random risk aversion and the cost of eliminating the foreign exchange risk of the Euro

Azar, Samih A - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 157-168

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562800

Do students expect compensation for wage risk?

Schweri, Juerg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity which handicapped the use of actual market wage...

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Starting Wages Respond To Employer's Risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Ophem, Hans - 2009

Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Theory suggests that starting wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that...

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Starting Wages Respond To Employer's Risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

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