Shocks, individual risk attitude, and vulnerability to poverty among rural households in Thailand and Vietnam

Oliver Gloede, Lukas Menkhoff and Hermann Waibel

Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Abstract: We examine whether the experience of shocks influences individual risk attitude. We measure risk attitude via a simple survey item, compiled among more than 4,000 households in Thailand and Vietnam. The experience of adverse shocks, which is typical for poor and vulnerable households, is related to a higher degree of risk aversion, even when controlled for a large set of socio-demographic variables. Therefore, shocks perpetuate vulnerability to poverty via their effect on risk attitude. We extend this general finding to various categories of shocks and find differences between Thailand and Vietnam. This suggests that risk-coping strategies profit from case-specific design.

Keywords: Risk attitude; shocks; vulnerability; risk perception; behavior towards risk; Southeast Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 O12 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2012-10
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