Promoting household-level adaptation measures is an important part of climate change adaptation policies to reduce vulnerability to droughts for (agro-)pastoral communities in sub-Saharan Africa. To develop effective supportive policies, it is important to get a better understanding of the needs...

This article describes the main historical facts concerning the Saint Petersburg paradox, the most important solutions proposed thus far, and the results of new experimental evidence and a simulation of the game that shed light on a solution for this paradox. The Saint Petersburg paradox has...