On the Stability of Risk Preferences: Measurement Matters
Joop Adema (),
Till Nikolka,
Panu Poutvaara and
Uwe Sunde
No 14755, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Abstract:
We exploit the unique design of a repeated survey experiment among students in four countries to explore the stability of risk preferences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relative to a baseline before the pandemic, we find that self-assessed willingness to take risks decreased while the willingness to take risks in an incentivized lottery task increased, for the same sample of respondents. These findings suggest domain specificity of preferences that is partly reflected in the different measures.
Keywords: stability of risk preferences; measurement of risk aversion; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D91 G50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2021-09
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Published - published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 210, 110172
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