Risk aversion and religion

Charles Noussair, Stefan Trautmann, Gijs Kuilen and Nathanaël Vellekoop

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2013, vol. 47, issue 2, 165-183

Abstract: We use a dataset for a demographically representative sample of the Dutch population that contains a revealed preference risk attitude measure, as well as detailed information about participants’ religious background, to study three issues. First, we find strong confirmatory evidence that more religious people, as measured by church membership or attendance, are more risk averse with regard to financial risks. Second, we obtain some evidence that Protestants are more risk averse than Catholics in such tasks. Third, our data suggest that the link between risk aversion and religion is driven by social aspects of church membership, rather than by religious beliefs themselves. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

Keywords: Risk aversion; Religion; Catholicism; Protestantism; C91; C93; D81; Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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