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Chimpanzee and Human Risk Preferences Show Key Similarities
Risk preference impacts how people make key life decisions related to health, wealth, and well-being. Systematic variations in risk-taking behavior can be the result of differences in fitness expectations, as predicted by life-history theory.
L. Haux +4 more
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Risk information source preferences in construction workers [PDF]
Purpose - Many researchers have investigated the determinants of workers’ risk-taking / unsafe behaviours as a way to improve safety management and reduce accidents but there has been a general lack of research about workers’ risk information seeking ...
Burns, Calvin, Conchie, Stacey
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To pay or not to pay: Measuring risk preferences in lab and field [PDF]
Measuring risk preferences using monetary incentives is costly. In the field, it might be also unfair and unsafe. The commonly used measure of Holt and Laury (2002) relies on a dozen lottery choices and payments, which make it time consuming and ...
Pablo Brañas-Garza +4 more
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The Role of Risk Preferences in Responses to Messaging About COVID-19 Vaccine Take-Up
Development of an effective COVID-19 vaccine is widely considered as one of the best paths to ending the current health crisis. While the ability to distribute a vaccine in the short-term remains uncertain, the availability of a vaccine alone will not be
J. Trueblood +2 more
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The Factors Associated with Risk and Time Preferences: Evidence from Australian Data
Risk and time preferences are crucial to economic growth because they can influence people's decisions about saving and investing. These preferences may partially explain inequality, the reason why the poor will always be poor.
Angelita Titis Pertiwi
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Inequality and risk preference
AbstractThis paper studies the relationship between income inequality and risk taking. Increased income inequality is likely to enlarge the scope for upward comparisons and, in the presence of reference-dependent preferences, to increase willingness to take risks.
Pickard, H. +2 more
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Parenthood and Risk Preferences [PDF]
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before becoming a parent, is largest shortly after giving birth and
Görlitz, Katja, Tamm, Marcus
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Stress and risk - Preferences versus noise [PDF]
We analyze the impact of acute stress on risky choice in a pre-registered laboratory experiment with 194 participants. We test the causal impact of stress on the stability of risk preferences by separating noise in decision-making from an actual shift ...
Elle Parslow, Julia Rose
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The CEO Characteristics Factors Toward Tax Aggressiveness of Family Companies in Indonesia
This study examines the relationship between the characteristics of the CEO that has an effect toward tax aggressiveness of family companies in Indonesia.
Rachmawati M.Oktaviani, Kukrit Wicaksono, Sunarto Sunarto, Ceacilia Srimindarti
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The predictive power of farmers’ risk attitude measures elicited by experimental methods
Aim of study: Farmers’ behavior is shaped by their individual attitudes towards risk. Consequently, an understanding of the heterogeneous risk attitudes among farmers is key to predicting their decision-making.
José A. Gómez-Limón +2 more
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