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 …

-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 …

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 …

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 …

can disentangle self-selection from reputation effects. Based on 476 taxi rides with four different types of taxis, we can … show strong reputation effects on the prices and service quality of drivers, while there is practically no evidence of a …

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use … patterns. Our findings indicate that risk-loving and skilled people are more mobile over longer distances because they are more … distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals …

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 …

This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become self-employed among individuals who grew up … correlation between risk preferences and self-employment after transition is unlikely to be driven by parents transmitting self …-employment experience and risk preferences to their children. Robustness checks on a sample of East Germans confirm that such a third factor …

This paper presents evidence suggesting men's (but not women's) risk and time preferences have systematically become … for 22,579 Australian-based respondents in up to 11 surveys from 2002-2015, men respond with increased risk aversion and … since 2008. This 'happiness channel' only partially explains the link between the local unemployment rate and risk …

We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We … targeting school absences was most effective in reducing the truancy of adolescents with relatively risk-averse parents …