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Individuals’ perception of their own road-traffic and overall mortality risks are examined in this paper. Perceived risk is
compared with the objective risk of the respondents’ peers, i.e. their own gender and age group, and the results suggest that
individuals’ risk perception of their own risk is biased. For road-traffic risk we obtain similar results to what have been
found previously in the literature, overassessment and underassessment among low- and high-risk groups, respectively. For
overall risk we find that all risk groups underestimate their risk. The results also indicate that men's risk bias is larger
than women’s.
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Henrik AnderssonEmail: |
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Petter Lundborg 《Journal of Risk and Uncertainty》2007,34(3):217-240
Using data on Swedish adolescents, this study examines (1) perceptions of the addictiveness and mortality risk of smoking,
(2) the effects of these perceptions on smoking behaviour, and (3) the role of various smoking risk information sources. The
average respondent believed that 46 out of 100 smokers would die from diseases caused by their smoking. As to addictiveness
perceptions, the average respondent believed that 68 out of 100 smokers trying to quit would not succeed. Both a higher perceived
addictiveness and a higher perceived mortality risk were negatively related to smoking participation. The results showed substantial
variation in the weight that the teenagers attached to the various information sources.
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Petter LundborgEmail: |
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Mikael Svensson 《Journal of Risk and Uncertainty》2009,39(1):65-85
This paper examines within-sample correlation between six different precautionary behaviors and stated willingness to pay
for a mortality risk reduction. The paper also shows estimates of the value of a statistical life based on seat belt and bicycle
helmet use as well as based on the stated willingness to pay for a risk reduction in traffic mortality. Contrary to the theoretical
expectations, no correlation is found between precautionary behavior and stated willingness to pay. One major explanation
is that females and the elderly take more precaution, but state a lower WTP for a risk reduction. The estimates of VSL from
the different approaches are $11.0 million, $5.0 million and $2.8 million from stated WTP, bicycle helmet use and seat belt
use, respectively.
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Mikael SvenssonEmail: |
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We present two theorems that yield necessary and sufficient conditions for first- and second-degree stochastic dominance deteriorations
of background risk to increase risk aversion with respect to foreground risk. We require that any change in a foreground risk
that is undesirable remains so after a background risk changes in a way that is either unfair, undesirable in the sense of
reducing expected utility, or undesirable in the sense of increasing expected marginal utility. Our results thus characterize
utility functions that are, respectively, vulnerable, proper, or standard with respect to changes in background risk.
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Arthur SnowEmail: |
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Dinky Daruvala 《Journal of Risk and Uncertainty》2007,35(3):265-283
This paper reports results from an economic experiment where respondents are asked to make choices between risky outcomes
for themselves and others. We investigate whether subjects’ own risk preferences and gender stereotypes are reflected in the
predictions they make for the risk preferences of others and the way this occurs. When predicting other people’s risk preferences,
the respondents tend to use a combination of their own risk preferences and stereotypes. Moreover, when making risky choices
for others, the respondents generally use a combination of their own risk preferences and their average predicted risk preference
of the targeted group.
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Dinky DaruvalaEmail: |
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Many decisions require tradeoffs over time and in the presence of risk. To examine interactions between risk and intertemporal
effects we developed a laboratory experiment. In the experiment, subjects choose between payoffs that take place at different
points in time. We find that very few subjects are consistently risk averse or risk loving. Instead, we find that subjects
are less patient in the presence of risk. We also find that increased risk decreases subjects’ patience levels. However, we
do not find evidence that the effect of risk on the intertemporal decision depends on the length of the temporal delay.
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Lisa R. AndersonEmail: |
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We propose a simple model with preference-based adverse selection and moral hazard that formalizes the cherry picking/propitious
selection argument. This argument assumes that individuals differ in risk aversion, potentially resulting in more risk averse
agents buying more insurance while being less risky. The propitious selection argument is summarized by two properties: regularity
(more risk averse agents exert more caution) and single-crossing (more risk averse agents have a higher willingness to pay
for insurance). We show that these assumptions are incompatible with a pooling equilibrium, and that they do not imply a negative
correlation between risk and insurance coverage at equilibrium.
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Philippe De DonderEmail: |
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Christian Gollier 《Journal of Risk and Uncertainty》2007,35(2):107-127
We examine the collective risk attitude of a group with heterogeneous beliefs. We prove that the wealth-dependent probability
distribution used by the representative agent is biased in favor of the beliefs of the more risk tolerant consumers. Moreover,
increasing disagreement on the state probability raises the state probability of the representative agent. It implies that
when most disagreements are concentrated in the tails of the distribution, the perceived collective risk is magnified. This
can help to solve the equity premium puzzle. We show that the trade volume and the equity premium are positively correlated.
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Christian GollierEmail: |
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We analyze the risk levels chosen by agents who have private information regarding their quality, and whose performance will
be judged and rewarded by outsiders. Assume that risk choice is observable. Agents will choose risk strategically to enhance
their expected reputations. We show that conspicuous conservatism results: agents of different qualities choose levels below
those that would be chosen if quality were observable. This happens because bad agents must cloak their identity by choosing
the same risk level as good agents, and good agents are more likely to distinguish themselves if they reduce the risk level.
Our results contrast starkly with those for the case when risk choice cannot be observed.
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Richard ZeckhauserEmail: |
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Scope insensitivity and embedding are fundamental concerns in contingent valuation studies for health risk reductions. Recently,
choice experiments have increasingly been used to obtain contingent willingness to pay (WTP) estimates. We juxtapose the WTP
estimates of a choice experiment (CE) to those of the contingent valuation method (CVM) for different health risk reductions
and compare them in the extent of scope insensitivity and embedding. WTP using CVM is scope sensitive for single health risks,
but embedding is observed for multiple disease risks. In contrast, WTP based on the CE is highly scope sensitive and convex
in risk reduction levels.
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Jutta RoosenEmail: |
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Jinkwon Lee 《Journal of Risk and Uncertainty》2008,36(1):19-41
We experimentally investigate the effect of an independent and exogenous background risk to initial wealth on subjects’ risk
attitudes and explore an appropriate incentive mechanism when identical or similar tasks are repeated in an experiment. Taking
a simple chance improving decision model under risk where the winning probabilities are negatively related to the potential
gain, we find that such a background risk tends to make risk-averse subjects behave more risk aversely. Furthermore, we find
that risk-averse subjects tend to show decreasing absolute risk aversion (DARA), and that a random round payoff mechanism
(RRPM) would control the possible wealth effect. This suggests that RRPM would be a better incentive mechanism for an experiment
where repetition of a task is used.
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Jinkwon LeeEmail: |
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Liqun Liu Andrew J. Rettenmaier Thomas R. Saving 《Journal of Risk and Uncertainty》2009,38(2):159-172
Self-protection can be financed either by upfront payments or by conditional payments (or contingent fees) in which individuals
pay a provider only when a favorable outcome is realized. We find that, from the vantage point of a risk-averse individual,
conditional payments welfare dominate upfront payments in the state-independent framework, but upfront payments welfare dominate
conditional payments in the state-dependent framework. Moreover, more risk aversion always implies more self-protection under
conditional payments, for both state-independent and state-dependent frameworks. In contrast, it has been previously argued
that more risk aversion does not necessarily imply more self-protection under upfront payments.
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Liqun LiuEmail: |
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In two experiments conducted with low-income participants, we find that individuals are more likely to buy state lottery tickets
when they make several purchase decisions one-at-a-time, i.e. myopically, than when they make one decision about how many
tickets to purchase. These results extend earlier findings showing that “broad bracketing” of decisions encourages behavior
consistent with expected value maximization. Additionally, the results suggest that the combination of myopic decision making
and the “peanuts effect”—greater risk seeking for low stakes than high stakes gambles—can help explain the popularity of state
lotteries.
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George LoewensteinEmail: |
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Catherine Bobtcheff Christian Gollier Richard Zeckhauser 《Journal of Risk and Uncertainty》2008,37(1):1-33
A fixed budget must be allocated to a finite number of different projects with uncertain outputs. The expected marginal productivity
of capital in a project first increases then decreases with the amount of capital invested. Such behavior is common when output
is a probability (of escaping infection, succeeding with an R&D project...). When the total budget is below some threshold,
it is invested in a single project. Above this cutoff, the share invested in a project can be discontinuous and non-monotone
in the total budget. Above an upper cutoff, all projects receive more capital as the budget increases.
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Catherine BobtcheffEmail: |
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Anna Alberini Stefania Tonin Margherita Turvani Aline Chiabai 《Journal of Risk and Uncertainty》2007,34(2):155-178
We use conjoint choice questions to investigate the preferences of people in four cities in Italy for income and future/permanent
mortality risk reductions delivered by contaminated site remediation policies. The VSL is €5.6 million for an immediate risk
reduction. If the risk reduction takes place 20 years from now, the implied VSL is €1.26 million. Respondents’ implicit discount
rate is 7%. The VSL depends on respondent characteristics, familiarity with contaminated sites, concern about the health effects
of exposure to toxicants, having a family member with cancer, perceived usefulness of public programs and beliefs about the
goals of government remediation programs.
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Anna AlberiniEmail: |
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We implement a risk experiment that allows for judgment errors to investigate who makes mistakes and whether it matters. The
experiments are conducted with a random sample of the adult population in Rwanda, and data on financial decisions are collected.
We find a high proportion of inconsistent choices, with over 50% of the participants making at least one mistake. Importantly,
errors are informative. While risk aversion alone does not explain financial decisions, risk aversion and inconsistent choices
interact in significant and sensible ways. As we would expect, risk-averse individuals are more likely to belong to a savings
group and less likely to take out an informal loan. For those more likely to make mistakes, however, as they become more risk
averse, they are less likely to belong to a savings group and more likely to take up informal credit, suggesting that mistakes correlate with less than optimal behavior.
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Ragan Petrie (Corresponding author)Email: |
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W. Kip Viscusi 《Journal of Risk and Uncertainty》2009,38(3):191-213
This paper uses a random utility model to examine stated preferences for the valuation of public risks of fatalities from
terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Traffic-related deaths serve as the common reference point in two series of pairwise
risk-risk tradeoff choices. Even after taking into account differences in respondent risk beliefs, the nationally representative
sample values the prevention of terrorism deaths almost twice as highly as preventing natural disaster deaths and at about
the same level as preventing deaths from traffic accidents, which pose greater personal risk. Education, seatbelt usage, political
preferences, and terrorism risk beliefs affect valuations in the expected manner.
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W. Kip ViscusiEmail: |
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The value of mortality risk reductions in Delhi,India 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Soma Bhattacharya Anna Alberini Maureen L. Cropper 《Journal of Risk and Uncertainty》2007,34(1):21-47
We interviewed commuters in Delhi, India, to estimate their willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce their risk of dying in road
traffic accidents in three scenarios that mirror the circumstances under which traffic fatalities occur in Delhi. The WTP
responses are internally valid: WTP increases with the size of the risk reduction, income, and exposure to road traffic risks,
as measured by length of commute and whether the respondent drives a motorcycle. As a result, the value of a statistical life
(VSL) varies across groups of beneficiaries. For the most highly-exposed individuals the VSL is about 150,000 Purchasing Power
Parity (PPP) dollars.
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Maureen L. CropperEmail: |
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Evaluation of projects that affect mortality risk usually assumes that risk changes are small and similar across individuals.
In reality, risks differ among individuals and information about risk heterogeneity determines the extent to which affected
lives are “statistical” or “identified” and influences the outcome of benefit-cost analysis (BCA). The effects of information
about risk heterogeneity on BCA depend on, inter alia, whether information concerns heterogeneity of baseline or change in
risk and whether valuation uses compensating or equivalent variation. BCA does not systematically favor identified over statistical
lives. We suggest some political factors that may explain the apparent public bias.
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Nicolas TreichEmail: |