Stability of Risk Preferences During COVID-19: Evidence From Four Measurements [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This article studies the stability of risk-preference during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results differ between risk-preference measurements and also men and women.
Peilu Zhang, Marco A. Palma
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Risk preferences under heterogeneous environmental risk [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 We study risk preferences and their determinants for commercial cattle farmers in Namibia who are subject to high and heterogeneous precipitation risk, using data from questionnaire and field experiments, simulated data for on-farm precipitation risk and
Andreas Haensler +3 more
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Is environmental behavior related to economic risk preferences? An exploratory case by case analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Do risk preferences play a role when deciding whether to act pro-environmentally? Looking at 28 different behaviors case by case – including recycling, waste reduction, energy and water conservation, consumer behavior, and environmental policy support ...
Stepan Vesely, Christian A. Klöckner
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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.
Charles Sprenger, James Andreoni
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Risk Pooling, Risk preferences, and Social Networks [PDF]
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012 Using date from a field experiment conducted in seventy Colombian municipalities, we investigate who pools risk with whom when risk pooling arrangements are not formally enforced. We explore the roles played by risk attitudes and network connections both
Abigail Barr +4 more
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Incorporating risk preferences of patients in the valuation of immune checkpoint inhibitors for non-small cell lung cancer [PDF]
Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 Immunotherapy offers a distinctive mechanism of action compared to traditional treatments, arising from additional value dimensions that may not be captured in standard health technology assessments.
Remziye Zaim +2 more
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Neural Differences in Relation to Risk Preferences during Reward Processing: An Event-Related Potential Study [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2023 Inter-individual variability in risk preferences can be reflected in reward processing differences, making people risk-seekers or risk-averse. However, the neural correlates of reward processing in individuals with risk preferences remain unknown ...
Sedigheh Naghel +3 more
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Does boredom affect economic risk preferences? [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 Previous literature and conventional wisdom have led researchers to believe that boredom increases economic risk taking, but the evidence in support of this conclusion is limited and has important shortcomings.
Sergio Pirla, Daniel Navarro-Martinez
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Carryover of domain-dependent risk preferences in a novel decision-making task [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2020 We investigated whether people’s risk taking tendency established in one domain (gains or losses) carries over to the other domain. Participants played a game in which they made repeated decisions between a fixed payoff and a risky option, where the ...
Martin S. Shapiro +2 more
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Is the veil of ignorance only a concept about risk? An experiment [PDF]
, 2007 We implement the Rawlsian thought experiment of a veil of ignorance in the laboratory which introduces risk and possibly social preferences. We find that both men and women react to the risk introduced by the veil of ignorance.
Hörisch, Hannah
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