located at the bottom of the income distribution, where risk aversion cannot play any role. …

domains; these include risk aversion, locus of control, alongside socio-economic and demographic characteristics. A greater … aversion to income inequality predicts a lower probability of voting for Leave, even when controlling for risk aversion and …

We develop a method to estimate domain-specific risk. We apply the method to sickness insurance by fitting a utility … risk aversion increases with income. Second, marginal utility is higher in the sick state conditional on income, due to an … observed fixed cost of sickness. Third, the domain-specificity of risk shifts the focus on the smoothing of utility, not …

chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables … than 50 employees, we find extensive evidence of a negative association between female CEO and firm's risk attitudes. This … risk aversion profile and put more effort in monitoring firm activities than men in the financial matter domains. A number …

We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more … hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test … heterosexual or homosexual job candidate. In addition, participants are surveyed on their risk aversion and other characteristics …

An investor's choice between safe and risky assets has long been seen as a behavior toward risk: more risk … on how the attendant financial risk interacts with effort. We find that if the risk multiplies with effort, risk …-averse individuals work less, whereas under additive risk effort choice is little affected by risk preferences. Our findings complement …

employment and income, but increases financial hardship and financial risk aversion. These impacts are generally short …