Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences

By Thomas J. Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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The Relationship between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures (2012, background): “Not much is known about how economic preferences develop over the life-cycle but at least for risk attitudes there seems to be a robust and large negative age effect on willingness to take risks (Dohmen et al., 2011).”
Global Evidence on Economic Preferences* (2018, neutral): “Dohmen, T., A. Falk, D. Huffman, U. Sunde, J. Schupp, and G. G. Wagner (2011).”
A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes (2016, positive): “…task in which outcomes change and probability are fixed (see, among others, Abdellaoui et al., 2011; Andersson et al., 2013; Dohmen and Falk, 2011; Dohmen et al., 2010, 2011; Eriksen et al., 2011; Falk et al., 2006; Masatlioglu et al., 2012; Sapienza et al., 2009; Sutter et al., 2013) 4The number…”
Risk perception of climate change: Empirical evidence for Germany (2017, background): “We furthermore include respondent’s body height as a control variable, as it is a frequently employed correlate of an individual’s general risk attitude in the social science literature (Dohmen et al., 2011).”
Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing (2017, positive): “A simple Likert item that solicits appraisals of the “seriousness” of societal risks on a 0–7-point scale, ISRPMs have been externally validated and correlate highly with more particular perceptions of both facts and policy preferences relating to the indicated societal risk (Dohmen et al., 2011; Ga”
The today and tomorrow of kids: Time preferences and educational outcomes of children (2011, background): “procedure (Benjamin et al., 2006; Burks et al, 2009; Dohmen et al., 2011).”
Experimentally Validated Survey Evidence on Individual Risk Attitudes in Rural Thailand (2013, methodology): “Our research design is conservative by relying on the procedures of Dohmen et al. (2009) so that wording of the survey items and the experiment design is identical.”
Measuring Farmer Risk Preferences in Europe: A Systematic Review (2019, background): “However, a caveat that continues to be frequently mentioned in the literature is the need to control better for unobserved variation, for example in the policy and technology environments in which farmers operate, or due to individual characteristics such as gender and parental background (Eckel and”
ADHD-like behavior and entrepreneurial intentions (2013, methodology): “This measure is highly correlated with economic measures on risk taking behavior with real money at stake (Dohmen et al. 2011).”
On doing relevant and rigorous experiments: Review and recommendations (2018, background): “Besides, not all types of behavior are equally prone to social desirability bias (e.g., risk preferences can be measured well without an explicit incentive, see, e.g., Dohmen et al., 2011).”
Risk Aversion and Guanxi Activities: A Behavioral Analysis of CEOs in China (2017, background): “Gender (male = 1) and the CEO’s education measured by number of years of schooling are both likely to lower an individual’s risk aversion (Dohmen et al., 2011; Eckel & Grossman, 2008).”