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Risk preferences under heterogeneous environmental risk [PDF]
, 2010 We elicit risk preferences and their determinants through a survey and field experiments for cattle farmers in Namibia who are subject to heterogeneous environmental risk.
Baumgärtner, Stefan +3 more
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Choice Under Risk: How Occupation Influences Preferences
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 In the last decade, a number of studies in the behavioral sciences, particularly in psychology and economics, have explored the complexity of individual risk behavior and its underlying factors.
Tetiana Hill +2 more
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Shocks and Stability of Risk Preferences
, 2021 While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed that indicate that risk preferences respond to shocks. This paper combines survey data and field experiments with three different tools that facilitated elicitation of dis-aggregated measures of ...
Holden, Stein T., Tilahun, Mesfin
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Alcohol demand and risk preference [PDF]
Journal of Economic Psychology, 2008 Both economists and psychologists have studied the concept of risk preference. Economists categorize individuals as more or less risk-tolerant based on the marginal utility of income. Psychologists categorize individuals' propensity towards risk based on harm avoidance, novelty seeking and reward dependence traits. The two concepts of risk are related,
Dhaval, Dave, Henry, Saffer
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with high‐risk cancer face complex developmental, psychosocial, and ethical challenges that extend beyond disease‐directed treatment. Although international recommendations exist for communication, psychosocial care, pediatric palliative care, survivorship, and shared decision‐making, these have largely evolved within ...
Johanna M. C. Blom +15 more
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Energy, 2019 Under the context of low-carbon economy development, the utilization of renewable energy is deemed as an effective way for energy conservation and emission reduction.
Hao-Ran Zhao, Sen Guo, Hui-Ru Zhao
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Risk Preferences and the Role of Emotions [PDF]
Economica, 2016 There is a large volume of research showing that emotions have relevant effects on decision‐making. We contribute to this literature by experimentally investigating the impact of four specific emotional states—joviality, sadness, fear and anger—on risk attitudes.
Conte, Anna +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld +5 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral EconomicsIntroductionThis study examines the relationship between physical activity and mental wellbeing among students not playing any sport (“couch potatoes”), recreational athletes and “dual career students”, i.e., students who are at the same time elite ...
Alice Aguiar-Noury +2 more
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From Aggregate Betting Data to Individual Risk Preferences
Econometrica, 2019 As a textbook model of contingent markets, horse races are an attractive environment to study the attitudes towards risk of bettors. We innovate on the literature by explicitly considering heterogeneous bettors and allowing for very general risk ...
P. Chiappori +3 more
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