Risk Taking Preferences of Farmers in Northern Thailand--Measurement and Implications

William Grisley

No 278930, 1980 Annual Meeting, July 27-30, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Risk taking preferences were elicited from farmers in Northern Thailand to test the hypothesis of increasing partial risk aversion, quantify absolute risk aversion indexes, and determine if socio-economic characteristics were associated with risk preferences. An actual payoff experimental method was developed and utilized t9 elicit risk preferences.

Keywords: International; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17
Date: 1980-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278930

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