This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals experience the major life
event of becoming a parent by using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample …

The purpose of this study is to analyse, for men and women, the microeconomic
determinants of life insurance purchases. Indeed, only a few papers have tried to justify …

Economic decisions frequently entail choices in the presence of risk. Decisions to purchase
insurance, to save, to invest, and to pursue an education are all choices that may involve …

From the perspective of safe asset theory, our paper studies the impact of the safety
preference of Chinese household sector on real estate asset allocation. Based on China …

Personal life events and individual risk preferences Page 1 Personal life events and individual
risk preferences Paul Bokern Jona Linde Arno Riedl Hans Schmeets Peter Werner 13 October …

Purpose The purpose this paper is to investigate whether family affects financial outcomes
and psychological biases in an under-researched context, Bangladeshi small investors …

Religious doctrines may guide individual attitudes and preferences, including risk behaviour
among others. We estimate the effect of religion on the willingness to take risk amongst 1209 …

Abstract We use the German Socio Economic Panel to analyze the impact of life changing
events on individuals' risk tolerance levels over time, which is reported in response to a …

As the population ages and wealth inequality between generations widens, the importance
of understanding how risk attitudes change is increasing. Using data from the Health and …

Rational investor tends to diversify their wealth among various investment avenues to
maximize returns for a given risk. Investment avenues have an inherent risk associated to …