Violence and Risk Preference: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

By Michael Callen, M. Isaqzadeh, James Long, Charles D. Sprenger. 2014

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Safety Research, Soil Science

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Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War (2019, unknown): “Interestingly, while Callen et al. (2014) find no impact of violence on risk aversion generally, they report that for those exposed to violence, fearful recollections increase risk tolerance under uncertainty but marginally decrease risk tolerance in the presence of certainty.”
Prospect theory and energy efficiency (2019, background): “Also see Callen et al. (2014). the lotteries over which subjects are asked to decide.”
Do Risk Preferences Change? Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake (2018, unknown): “13 Because this is the only question we can use as panel data, we cannot disentangle risk preference and loss aversion as Callen et al. (2014) did, based on Andreoni and Sprenger (2011).”
Housing markets in a pandemic: Evidence from historical outbreaks (2020, background): “, 2016) or violence (Callen et al., 2014) can result in increased risk aversion or pessimism, and epidemics might have similar consequences.”
Violence, psychological trauma, and risk attitudes: Evidence from victims of violence in Colombia (2018, background): “This is precisely the approach of Callen et al. (2014). In a clinical setting, however, the effect”
Political Psychology in International Relations: Beyond the Paradigms (2018, background): “…on exposure to violence more generally: Individuals in communities affected by violence display more prosocial motivations (Gilligan et al. 2014), display different risk preferences in response to primes (Callen et al. 2014), and are more supportive of retributive justice (Hall et al. 2017).”
Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters (2015, background): “Callen et al. (2014) fi nds that individuals exposed to violence exhibit an increased preference for certainty.”
The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2015, background): “…makes everyone more risk averse.4 Our aim in this paper is to estimate the overall 4Importantly, the comparison groups in Voors et al. (2012) and Callen et al. (2014) are made up of individuals who lived through a civil conflict impact of violence; doing so, we may not find the same effect.5…”
Consumer food stockpiling behavior and willingness to pay for food reserves in COVID-19 (2020, result): “Our results are largely consistent with Callen et al. (2014) and Hanaoka et al. (2018), supporting the emotional channel behind the nexus between disasters and preferences.”
Priming in Economics (2016, methodology): “To learn about the consequences of traumatic and violent experiences on economic preferences, Callen et al [7] conducted a priming experiment in Afghanistan with civilians from different regions.”