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these two effects. We further conduct an incentivized choice experiment to assess parental risk attitude in a sample of …
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We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in Indonesia and find that individuals who recently suffered a flood or earthquake...
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-scale experiment. Choices react significantly to the stakes and to the size of the choice set. Our experiment rationalizes the gender …
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We present results from a laboratory study of loss aversion in the context of intertemporal choice. We investigate whether the provision of (windfall) endowments results in different elicited discount rates relative to subjects who earn income or earn and retain the income for a period before...
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We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … protocol (Holt and Laury, 2002). In our experiment, participants earn and retain money for a week before using it in an …
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We combine data from a risk preference elicitation experiment conducted on a representative sample via the Internet … with laboratory data on students for the same experiment to investigate effects of implementation mode and of subject pool … selection. We find that the frequency of errors in the lab experiment is drastically below that of the representative sample in …
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In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed survey data. We find more patient choices among women...
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-induced selection") and self-selection of participants into the experiment. We find that both types of selection lead to a sample of …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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with an incentivized experiment. The effect of domestic violence on risk attitudes is not mediated by cognitive development …
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