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 …

experimentally the behavioral forces stipulated in their theory. The evidence confirms the model's prediction that there is a …

among a substantial share of the population into account. Theory shows and experiments confirm, that even if fairness …

just a special case of risk-taking, but based on important forms of social preferences such as betrayal aversion …

to be more mixed and modest than expected. We suggest that this in fact should not be surprising, since economic theory …

We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion … loss by experimental participants. Our experimental design augments the Holt-Laury risk preference elicitation methodology … additional reluctance to participate in a mixed domain lottery beyond that predicted by risk aversion. We show that only …

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 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 …

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 …