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Technological Risk and Policy Preferences [PDF]
Comparative Political Studies, 2021 Despite recent attention to the economic and political consequences of automation and technological change for workers, we lack data about concerns and policy preferences about this structural change. We present hypotheses about the relationships among automation risk, subjective concerns about technology, and policy preferences.
Aina Gallego +3 more
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Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2012 Risk and time are intertwined. The present is known while the future is inherently risky. This is problematic when studying time preferences since uncontrolled risk can generate apparently present-biased behavior. We systematically manipulate risk in an intertemporal choice experiment.
Andreoni, James, Sprenger, Charles
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Risk Preferences and Training Investments [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 We analyze workers’ risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less; they undertake more training if it insures them against future losses.
Caliendo, Marco +3 more
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Identifying Criminalss Risk Preferences
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 There is a 250 year old presumption in the criminology and law enforcement literature that people are deterred more by increases in the certainty rather than increases in the severity of legal sanctions. We call this presumption the Certainty Aversion Presumption (CAP).
Mungan, Murat C., Klick, Jonathan
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A marker of biological ageing predicts adult risk preference in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris [PDF]
, 2018 Why are some individuals more prone to gamble than others? Animals often show preferences between 2 foraging options with the same mean reward but different degrees of variability in the reward, and such risk preferences vary between individuals ...
Andrews, Clare +5 more
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Depression, Risk Preferences and Risk-Taking Behavior [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk preferences and risk-taking behaviors. We are the first to address this issue using large-scale, representative panel data that include both behavioral and
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark +2 more
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Environmental Adaptation of Risk Preferences
The Economic Journal, 2022 Abstract We present incentivised panel data measuring risk preferences of subsistence farmers from across Ethiopia and pair them with rainfall data. We use these data to test the hypothesis that risk preferences may adapt to the environment of the decision maker.
Di Falco, Salvatore, Vieider, Ferdinand
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Risk Preferences, Time Preferences, and Smoking Behavior
Southern Economic Journal, 2018 There is a rich theoretical literature in economics which models habit‐forming behaviors, of which addiction is the exemplar, but there is a paucity of experimental economic studies eliciting and comparing the preferences that economic theory suggests may differ between addicts and nonaddicts.
Harrison, Glenn W. +3 more
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Risk preferences under acute stress [PDF]
Experimental Economics, 2017 AbstractMany important decisions are made under stress and they often involve risky alternatives. There has been ample evidence that stress influences decision making, but still very little is known about whether individual attitudes to risk change with exposure to acute stress.
Lubomir Cingl, Jana Cahlikova
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The Growing Importance of Risk in Financial Regulation [PDF]
, 2009 This paper traces the developments that have contributed to the importance of risk in regulation. Not only does it consider theories associated with risk, it also discusses explanations as to why risk has become so important within regulatory and ...
Ojo, Mariane.B.
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