Measuring Risk Attitudes in a Natural Experiment: Data from The Television Game Show LINGO

Roel Maria Wilhelmus Jozef Beetsma and P.C. Schotman

Working Papers from Southern California - School of Business Administration

Abstract: We use data from a television game show involving elementary lotteries and sSubstantial prize money as a natural experiment to measure risk attitudes.We find robust evidence of substantial risk aversion.

Keywords: RISK; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 C90 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998

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