We study the relative risk aversion of an individual with particular social preferences: his wellbeing is influenced by …, the individual becomes more risk averse when he rises in the wealth hierarchy. Second, if the individual's level of … intensification is strong enough, then the individual becomes less risk averse: the individual's desire to advance further in the …

stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … prone to divorce exhibit risk-taking behavior that is more similar to that of single men than married men in environments …

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 … gap that often characterizes choices under uncertainty by means of a higher loss rather than risk aversion …

We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and … compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk … students, but peasants were more risk averse. Testing for the effect of socio-economic variables on uncertainty attitudes …

Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared … to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate … educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky future income paths and therefore depends on risk and time preferences …

measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk … environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC data for China, we find that rural-urban migrants and their family … members are substantially less risk-averse than stayers. We further provide evidence that individual risk attitudes are …

-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk … twice as risk-averse as parents of sons. The study demonstrates this in longitudinal ('switching') data and cross …

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …