candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …

This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability … individuals are found to be more risk averse, in agreement with common findings. Unlike previous studies that ascribed gender … differences in risk attitudes solely to differences in the degree utility curvature, however, our results show that this finding …

This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey … the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a representative … sample of 450 subjects, and find that the measure is a good predictor of actual risk-taking behavior. We then use a more …

’ time and risk preferences. We find no influence on anchoring. However, even if biases are lower for people with higher …

This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a …

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …

stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …

This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes … truncation of the data, allows to precisely estimate both risk aversion and risk seeking, and is not affected by the degree of …-scale experiment. Choices react significantly to the stakes and to the size of the choice set. Our experiment rationalizes the gender …

We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … protocol (Holt and Laury, 2002). In our experiment, participants earn and retain money for a week before using it in an … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We find loss aversion, distinct from risk aversion, has a significant effect on …