Experimentally-validated survey evidence on individual riskattitudes in rural Thailand

This study validates a survey-based measure of general risk attitude by an incentivecompatible experiment among more than 900 participants in rural Thailand. The surveymeasure of self-assessed risk attitude provides a useful approximation of the experimentallyderived risk attitude. This holds when we add various socio-demographic control variables tothe survey-experiment-relation which are available from the representative household surveyand which are related to risk attitude in plausible ways...

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Hardeweg, Bernd ; Menkhoff, Lukas ; Waibel, Hermann
Institutions:	Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Subject:	Risikoverhalten \| Umfrage \| survey \| Feldexperiment

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Extent:	176128 bytes 31 p. application/pdf
Series:	Leibniz Universität Hannover - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Diskussionspapiere Discussion Paper ; No. 464 (2011)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
ISSN:	0409-9962
Classification:	C93 - Field Experiments ; D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; O1 - Economic Development ; Business administration. Other aspects ; Corporate finance and investment policy. General ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; Thailand
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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