Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: evidence from rural Ethiopia

We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian pea...

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Weitere Verfasser: Akay, Alpaslan (BerichterstatterIn) , Martinsson, Peter (BerichterstatterIn) , Medhin, Haileselassie (BerichterstatterIn) , Trautmann, Stefan T. (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Bonn IZA 2009
Schriftenreihe:IZA discussion papers 4225
In: Discussion paper series (4225)

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Verfasserangaben:Alpaslan Akay; Peter Martinsson; Haileselassie Medhin; Stefan T. Trautmann

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