Browsing by Subject "Risk-taking (Psychology)"

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Health interventions and risky behaviour

Madden, David (David Patrick) (The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2007)
Individual and regional determinants of students risk behaviour

Delaney, Liam (Irish Economic Association, 2008-04)
Risk preference and employment contract type

Farrell, Lisa ; Brown, Sarah ; Harris, Mark N. ; Sessions, John G. (Blackwell, 2006)

We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies ...
Risk preference and employment contract type

Brown, Sarah ; Farrell, Lisa ; Harris, Mark N. ; Sessions, John G. (University of Melbourne. Department of Economics, 2002-04)

We consider three broad types of employment contract vis, self-employment, PRP, and fixed wage employment. We focus on the implied degree of income risk associated with each type of employment contract, arguing that such ...
Who really wants to be a millionaire? Estimates of risk aversion from gameshow data

Hartley, Roger ; Lanot, Gauthier ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2006-05-10)

This paper analyses the behaviour of TV gameshow contestants to estimate risk aversion. We are able to show that the gameshow participants are broadly representative of the population as a whole. The gameshow has a number ...