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Association between mindfulness and risk and time preferences
Many studies have investigated the role of socio-demographic factors (including gender, age, race), cognitive ability and cultural factors on time...
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Learning your own risk preferences
Do people know their own risk preferences, or do risk choices change with experience and observation? We provide a straightforward test in the...
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Higher-order risk preferences and livelihood choices of farmers from West Bengal, India
This paper investigates the relationship between livelihood diversification strategies and risk preferences, including risk aversion, loss aversion,...
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Demonstrated risk preferences and COVID-19 regulations in the United States
Research has pointed towards U.S. state officials setting COVID regulations based on their constituents’ political affiliation. But a further...
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An experimental investigation of social risk preferences for health
In this paper, we use the risk apportionment technique of Eeckhoudt, Rey and Schlesinger (2007) to study higher order risk preferences for others’...
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Eliciting risk preferences in an artefactual field experiment via replication and an alternative approach
This paper investigates risk preferences using an artefactual field experiment conducted with a non-standard subject pool of farmers in Ghana. I...
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Risk preferences and contract choices
We conducted a series of field experiments to investigate the ability of experimentally measured risk preferences to predict the contractual choices...
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Portfolio Allocation with Dynamic Risk Preferences via Reinforcement Learning
In the realm of investment, the mean–variance model serves as an efficacious method for constructing investment portfolios, as it is underpinned by a...
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Risk and time preferences interaction: An experimental measurement
We experimentally characterize and measure the interaction between risk and time preferences. Our results indicate that risk and time preferences are...
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Estimating risk and time preferences over public lotteries: Findings from the field and stream
Public lotteries for non-market goods provide a unique field counterpart to experimental lotteries with monetary payoffs for investigating risk and...
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The locus of dread for mass shooting risks: Distinguishing alarmist risk beliefs from risk preferences
Data from three surveys before and after the 2022 mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde provide a natural experiment to assess perceptions and...
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Higher order risk attitudes: new model insights and heterogeneity of preferences
It is now well established that higher-order risk preferences play a crucial role in determining the risky choices of decision makers in a wide range...
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On the predictions of cumulative prospect theory for third and fourth order risk preferences
In this paper, we analyse higher-order risky choices by the representative cumulative prospect theory (CPT) decision maker from three alternative...
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Individual characteristics associated with risk and time preferences: A multi country representative survey
This paper empirically analyzes how individual characteristics are associated with risk aversion, loss aversion, time discounting, and present bias....
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Behavioral welfare economics and risk preferences: a Bayesian approach
We propose the use of Bayesian estimation of risk preferences of individuals for applications of behavioral welfare economics to evaluate observed...
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The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes
We present new descriptive evidence on the immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany, one of immigrants’ most preferred...
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Preferences for social insurance: the role of job security and risk propensity
In a 2003 article, Karl Moene (University of Oslo) and Michael Wallerstein (Yale University) demonstrated that wealthier citizens tend to support...
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Can conflict affect individuals’ preferences for income redistribution?
This study examines the effect of conflict on individuals’ preferences for income redistribution. To this end, I compare individuals’ preferences...
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Populist attitudes, fiscal illusion and fiscal preferences: evidence from Dutch households
It is well documented that the public is often poorly informed about the economy. In the domain of fiscal policy, this may make voters susceptible to...
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A selected literature review of the effect of Covid-19 on preferences
This article surveys the rapidly growing literature that examined the influence of Covid-19 on preferences. Based on 33 studies, the article examines...