-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 …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access …

individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery and self-assessment of risk attitude on a 0-10 scale. We confirm … familiar findings: risk aversion dominates, women are more risk averse than men, risk aversion decreases with increasing …

Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … paper reports instead between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability … prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

controlling for differential risk attitudes. Our empirical investigation is based on a dataset drawn from the 1989-2006 Bank of …