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Risk preferences and poverty traps in the uptake of credit and insurance amongst small-scale farmers in South Africa

, 2020
We use a series of framed experimental games to test the role of access to credit and insurance on farm technology uptake with small-scale farmers in South Africa.
M. Visser, Hafsah Jumare, K. Brick
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Comment on “Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences”: Separating Risk and Time Preference

American Economic Review, 2015
Andreoni and Sprenger (2012a,b) observe that utility functions are distinct for risk and time preferences, and show that their findings are consistent with a preference for certainty. We revisit this question in an enriched experimental setting in which subjects make intertemporal decisions under different risk conditions. The observed choice behavior
Miao, Bin, Zhong, Songfa
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Risk Preferences and Changes in Background Risk

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
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Keenan, Donald C.   +2 more
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Preferences over social risk

Oxford Economic Papers, 2005
We elicit individual preferences over social risk. We identify the extent to which these preferences are correlated with individual preferences over individual risk and individual preferences over the well-being of others. We examine these preferences in the context of laboratory experiments over small, anonymous groups, although the methodological ...
Harrison, Glenn W.   +3 more
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The effects of need for cognition, gender, risk preferences and marketing education on entrepreneurial intentions

, 2020
Entrepreneurial aspirations are essential to the creation and survival of many businesses and to the economic development of nations. Understanding the drivers of entrepreneurial intentions is therefore of central importance from both academic and public
H. Estelami
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Risk preferences, production contracts and technology adoption by broiler farmers in China

China economic review, 2019
This study expands on existing research on farmers' risk preferences and technology adoption, with novel analysis of the relationship between risk preferences, production contract participation, and technology investment levels and adoption time.
Hui Mao, Li Zhou, J. Ifft, Rui-Yao Ying
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Premium auctions and risk preferences

Journal of Economic Theory, 2010
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Audrey Hu, Theo Offerman, Liang Zou
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Risk attitude and preference

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2009
AbstractCitizens of Western countries are asked to make an increasing number of decisions that involve risk, from decisions about how much and how to save for their old age to choices among medical treatments and medical insurance plans. At the same time, uncertainty about choice outcomes has gone up as the result of ever faster social, environmental ...
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Separating Risk Preference and Time Preference

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
In the studies of decision making under risk and time, an increasingly important question is whether the utility representations should be the same for both circumstances. This study aims to test the separation between risk preference and time preference in a controlled laboratory setting, where subjects make intertemporal allocation decisions under ...
Bin Miao, Songfa Zhong
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Adolescent Time and Risk Preferences: Measurement, Determinants and Field Consequences

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019
We use experimental and survey measures to evaluate the time and risk preferences of nearly 500 adolescents aged 16-19 years old. We find that survey questions about time and risk preferences are weakly correlated with corresponding experiments in which ...
A. Samek   +3 more
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