Income and choice under risk

Arnt O. Hopland (), Egil Matsen and Bjarne Strøm
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Arnt O. Hopland: Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between income and risky choice in a field ex- periment where stakes are of first-orderimportance to the subjects' living standards. We combine observations of stopping decisions in a Norwegian game show with reliable data on each subject's income. Participants in the experiment are randomly drawn from a large subject pool that is representative of the Norwegian population. Our re- sults clearly indicate that people are risk-averse in making large-stake choices and that decision makers with high income are more willing to accept nancial risk.

Keywords: Risky choice; Field experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 C93 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2013-04-16
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