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 …

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

We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a … laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii) behavior in naturally-occurring field behavior under risk (financial, health and … employment decisions). We find that measures of risk attitude are related to behavior in laboratory financial decisions and the …

studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the …

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 …

punish, which in turn reduces the deterrence effect of high fines. Using a laboratory experiment, we identify these effects …

Using a unique field experiment from Canada, we estimate individual preference over risk and time and show considerable … preferences. We find that both long-run discount factors and subjective payment failure risk parameters have a high degree of …

We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of … alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but …

In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self … relationship between self-control and both risk and social preferences. To exogenously vary the level of self-control, we use a … well-established experimental manipulation. We find that low self-control causes less risk-averse behavior. The effect of …