national security as of March 2022. Fourth, firm-level risk perceptions skewed heavily to the downside in spring 2020 but …

This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome …/or extra labor effort. We find strong evidence that ex-post access to labor opportunities reduces ex-ante risk willingness … while access to tax evasion has no effect on risk behavior. We discuss possible explanations for this result based on the …

This paper considers an economy where individuals differ in productivity and in risk. Rochet (1991) has shown that when … private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance is desirable if and only if risk and … violated for the old age dependency risk (mainly because longevity in turn is positively correlated with productivity). We …

This paper analyzes the optimal response of the social insurance system to a rise in labor market risk. To this end, we … develop a tractable macroeconomic model with risk-free physical capital, risky human capital (labor market risk) and … (human capital) risk increases social welfare if the government adjusts the tax-and-transfer system optimally. Finally, we …

We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We … independent of the social welfare function and determined by the degree of income risk and risk aversion. The optimal linear …

We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better …, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse parents have a stronger preference for sons than for daughters …. Second, after the birth of their children, parents with sons are more risk seeking, compared to parents with daughters. We …

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in …

In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth‐cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are … entrance at age 18) has no effect on risk preferences measured at age 20. This is in contrast to experimental studies that use … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …