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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionProsocial risky behavior (PRB) proposes that individuals take risks for others’ benefits or social welfare, and that this may involve trade-offs between risk and social preferences.
Changlin Liu +4 more
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Understanding gambling behaviour and risk attitudes using cryptocurrency-based casino blockchain data [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 The statistical concept of gambler’s ruin suggests that gambling has a large amount of risk. Nevertheless, gambling at casinos and gambling on the Internet are both hugely popular activities.
Jonathan Meng, Feng Fu
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The Role of Time Preferences in Compliance With COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors in Iran: A Quasi-hyperbolic Discounting Approach [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public HealthObjectives: This study aimed to investigate the role of time preferences in compliance with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) preventive behaviors in an adult population of Iran.
Moslem Soofi +4 more
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Risk Preferences are Not Time Preferences: Comment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Andreoni and Sprenger (in press) report evidence that distinct utility functions govern choices under certainty and risk. I investigate the robustness of their result to the experimental design. I find that the effect disappears completely when a multiple price list is used instead of a convex time budget design.
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Risk Aversion Under Preference Uncertainty [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 We show that if an agent is uncertain about the precise form of his utility function, his actual relative risk aversion may depend on wealth even if he knows his utility function lies in the class of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility functions. We illustrate the consequences of this result for optimal asset allocation: poor agents that are
Kräussl, Roman +2 more
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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 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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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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