risk preferences. Here, we develop an analogous tool for choice under uncertainty – the ambiguity triangle – and show that … characterize this heterogeneity with finite-mixture estimates of a one-parameter extension of Expected Utility Theory wherein 48 …

We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply … a life-cycle model with search frictions, we show that the estimated changes in risk can account for 85 percent of the … increase in within group wage inequality. The welfare costs of rising risk are small …

We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and … incomplete markets model. Moreover, age-varying risk implies a linear increase in consumption inequality late in working life …

-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated …

producing human capital.We also demonstrate that this attenuation effect tends to concentrate generational consumption risk … into an i.i.d. generational consumption shock. In other words, each generation bears all of the risk associated with their … own demographic uncertainty. As a final exercise, we demonstrate that if the tax rate funding education spending varies …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …

marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding …

We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of …

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