Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the results from experimental measures of risk
aversion for evidence of systematic differences in the behavior of men and women. In most …

To what extent is there a general factor of risk preference, R, akin to g, the general factor of
intelligence? Can risk preference be regarded as a stable psychological trait? These …

This advanced textbook is an essential guide to discovering new and more illuminating
ways to analyse the econometric modelling of experimental data. Peter Moffatt, one of the …

This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males.
We survey the existing experimental literature, finding that significance and magnitude of …

We offer a structured literature survey of experimental studies involving insurance demand
choices and their experimental methodology. With this, we aim to fulfill two goals. First, we …

We design experiments to jointly elicit risk and time preferences for the adult Danish
population. Since subjects are generally risk averse, we find that joint elicitation provides …

We review the experimental evidence on risk aversion in controlled laboratory settings. We
review the strengths and weaknesses of alternative elicitation procedures, the strengths and …

We examine the properties of a popular method for eliciting choices and values from
experimental subjects, the multiple price list format. The main advantage of this format is that …

This paper empirically and jointly analyses the relations between standard time discounting,
risk aversion, loss aversion, and present bias and household stated adoption of low to high …

An extension to Ellsberg's experiment demonstrates that attitudes to ambiguity and
compound objective lotteries are tightly associated. The sample is decomposed into three …