Allais for the poor

Tabea Herrmann, Olaf Hübler, Lukas Menkhoff and Ulrich Schmidt

No 2036, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: This paper complements evidence on the Allais paradox from advanced countries and educated people by a novel investigation in a poor rural area. The share of Allais-type behavior is indeed high and related to characteristics of 'lacking ability', such as poor education, unemployment, and little financial sophistication. Based on prospective reference theory, we extend these characteristics by biased processing of probabilistic information. Finally, we reveal that Allais-type behavior is linked to risk-related characteristics, such as risk tolerance and optimism. This indicates a potential problem as exactly the more dynamic among the poor tend to make inconsistent decisions under uncertainty.

Keywords: field experiments; Allais paradox; socio-demographic characteristics; prospective reference theory; first order stochastic dominance; risk attitude; optimism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D03 D81 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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