Risk Attitudes of Children and Adults: Choices Over Small and Large Probability Gains and Losses

By William T. Harbaugh, Kate Krause, Lise Vesterlund. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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Citations in the corpus

Measuring Subjective Expectations in Developing Countries: A Critical Review and New Evidence (2009, background): “…by region of the distribution of answering regarding experiencing food shortage is consistent with historical regional variation in drought and food shortage, and the patterns of answers of beliefs about infant mortality match that of actual regional variations (Delavande and Kohler, 2008a).”
Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters (2013, background): “Previous literature on children and adolescents finds either no gender gap (Harbaugh et al. 2002; Almås et al. 2012), or that boys are more risk taking than girls (Cárdenas et al.”
Men, Women and Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence (2008, neutral): “…Hartog, Ferrer-i-Carbonell, and Jonker (2002), Brinig (1995), Holt and Laury (2002), and Eckel and Grossman (2002, 2008) all fall in the gain domain; Schubert et al. (1999), Moore and Eckel (2003), and Harbaugh, Krause, and Vesterlund (2002) have gambles in both the gain and the loss domain.”
The development of risk-taking: A multi-perspective review (2006, background): “Consistent with Reyna and Ellis (1994), however, Levin and Hart (2003) and Reyna (1996), as well as Harbaugh, Krause, and Vesterlund (2001), found that younger children have greater preference for risky over certain alternatives, independent of how the risks are stated, than older children and…”
A Theoretical and Experimental Appraisal of Five Risk Elicitation Methods (2013, positive): “More recently, a variation of the same task has been used by Harbaugh et al. (2002), again in a context with children.”
Risk Aversion in the Laboratory (2008, methodology): “The effect of demographics and task can be examined using data generated by Harbaugh, Krause, and Vesterlund (2002).”