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Comparative Ross Risk Aversion in the Presence of Mean Dependent Risks [PDF]
This paper studies comparative risk aversion between risk averse agents in the presence of a background risk. Although the literature covers this question extensively, our contribution differs from most of the literature in two respects.
Georges Dionne, Jingyuan Li
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate individuals' genetic risk for developing multifactorial conditions. Recent genome‐wide association studies have enabled development of psychiatric PRS, which hold potential to streamline diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions.
Lauren A. Ginn +11 more
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Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions [PDF]
We develop a non-rational expectation econometric model of sequential schooling decisions. Using unique Italian panel data in which individual differences in attitudes toward risk are measurable (with error), we investigate the effect of risk aversion on
Christian Belzil, Marco Leonardi
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Citation: 'risk aversion' in the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed.; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.16060 • License: The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International for individual terms.
Andrew W. Lo, Ruixun Zhang
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The Complementary Nature of Financial Risk Aversion and Financial Risk Tolerance
RisksFinancial risk aversion and financial risk tolerance are sometimes considered to be ‘opposite sides of the same coin’, with the implication being that risk aversion (a term describing the unwillingness of an investor to take risks based on a probability ...
John Grable, Abed Rabbani, Wookjae Heo
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RISK AVERSION BEHAVIOR. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RISK AVERSION, PRUDENCE AND CAUTIOUSNESS [PDF]
This paper defines decreasing absolute risk aversion in purely behavioral termswithout any assumption of differentiability and shows that a strictly increasing and riskaverse utility function with decreasing absolute risk aversion is necessarily ...
Botoc Claudiu, Pirtea Marilen
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices [PDF]
We use data on households' deductible choices in auto and home insurance to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard" risk aversion (concave utility over final wealth), loss aversion, and nonlinear probability weighting ...
Barseghyan, Levon +3 more
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Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.Sex as a biological variable (SABV) is a critical determinant of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and toxicity in nonclinical studies. This review highlights how inappropriate neglect of sex differences compromises animal welfare, scientific reproducibility, and regulatory compliance.
Kenta Onuma +2 more
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