Are Risk Preferences Stable Across Contexts? Evidence from Insurance Data

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The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences (2016, background): “In the light of evidence on the context-dependence of preferences (Tver-sky and Simonson 1993, Barseghyan et al. 2011, Einav et al. 2012, Ellingsen et al. 2012), our approach might come with the caveat that more context-speci ﬁ c items might work even better than the more context-free items…”
Measuring the time stability of Prospect Theory preferences (2010, unknown): “Nosic and Weber (2008) Barseghyan et al. (2008) Dohmen et al. (2009)”
Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution (2016, background): “In particular, a large literature finds that risk aversion is context-specific and varies with the scale of the risk (Chetty and Szeidl (2007), Barseghyan et al. (2011), Einav et al.”
Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship (2013, result): “This assumption is debatable but consistent with panel evidence from Andersen et al., (2008) and Sahm (2007), and with cross-sectional evidence from Barseghyan et al. (2011) and Dohmen et al. (2009).”