In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …

-varying volatility are preferred to the long-run risk model. We analyze asset pricing implications of the estimated models …

Estimating risk preferences is tricky because controlling for confounding factors is difficult. Omitting or imperfectly … controlling for these factors can attribute too much observable behavior to risk aversion and bias estimated preferences. Agents … often modify risky decisions in response to dynamic wealth or asset thresholds, where they exist. Ignoring this dynamic risk …

the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and empirically study the relation between income risk …-income population of Bogotá, characterized by limited financial education and subject to substantial income risk. In line with the … theoretical predictions, we find that an increase in income risk is associated with higher savings for loss-averse individuals …

the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and empirically study the relation between income risk …-income population of Bogotá, characterized by limited financial education and subject to substantial income risk. In line with the … theoretical predictions, we find that an increase in income risk is associated with higher savings for loss-averse individuals …

aversion. An accompanying laboratory experiment confirms that an exogenous increase in income risk causally leads to this … empirically study the relation between income risk, experimentally elicited loss aversion, and precautionary savings. We do so … subject to substantial income risk. In line with the theoretical predictions, we find that an increase in income risk is …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …

bubbles. We consider a setting where participants sorted according to their degree of risk aversion trade in experimental … asset markets. We show that risk sorting is able to explain bubbles partially: Markets with the most risk-tolerant traders … exhibit larger bubbles than markets with the most risk averse traders. In our study risk aversion does not correlate with …

Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk … attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the … perceives the threat of job loss and is of a transitory nature. The change in stated risk attitude matches observable job …

Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk … attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing one’s job reduces the … perceives the threat of job loss and is of a transitory nature. The change in stated risk attitude matches observable job …