Background risk in generalized expected utility theory

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Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War (2019, unknown): “5! ! people living in high risk environments act in a less risk averse way as they are not as concerned about risks that seem small relative to their general setting (Quiggin, 2003).”
Naturally Occurring Preferences and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of Risk Aversion (2007, methodology): “Making use of the concept of constant risk aversion presented by Safra and Segal (1998), Quiggin (2003) showed that the premium for a given risk is always reduced by the presence of independent background risk.”
Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters (2015, unknown): “Quiggin (2003), using non-expected utility theories based on probability weighting shows that for a wide range of risk-averse utility functions, independent risks are complementary rather than substitutes. That is, aversion to one risk will be reduced by the presence of an independent background ris”
Variation in risk seeking behaviour following large losses: A natural experiment (2014, background): “The necessary link between background risk and more risk aversion has been contested by Quiggin (2003) who showed that for generalized EU theory, such as Yaari’s (1987) dual theory, background risk can actually lead to the opposite effect of that suggested in the EU framework, thereby increasing…”