Blar i CLTS Working papers (HH) på emneord "Risk assessment"
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Can adoption of improved maize varieties help smallholder farmers adapt to drought? : evidence from Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;2015:1, Working paper, 2015)This study used a three-year panel dataset for 350 Malawian farm households to examine the potential for widespread adoption of drought tolerant (DT) maize varieties, a technology that holds considerable promise for ... -
The Devil is in the details : risk preferences, choice list design, and measurement error
(CLTS Working paper;3/19, Working paper, 2019)We use a field experiment to estimate the risk preferences of 945 youth and young adult members of 116 rural business groups organized as primary cooperatives in a semi-arid risky environment in northern Ethiopia. Multiple ... -
Group trust in youth business groups : influenced by risk tolerance and expected trustworthiness
(CLTS Working paper;2017:13, Working paper, 2017)We analyzed lab-in-the-field trust and risk experiment with 1125 youth in 119 youth groups established as primary cooperatives to develop a joint business. The experiments were implemented using classrooms in local schools ... -
How related are risk preferences and time preferences?
(CLTS Working paper;4/19, Working paper, 2019)Risk and time preferences are fundamentally important for financial decisions. We study such preferences for business group members based on field experiments in Ethiopia. The relationship between risk preferences and time ... -
Is diminishing impatience in time-dated risky prospects explained by probability weighting?
(CLTS Working paper;03/22, Working paper, 2022)We use a field experiment and a within-subject design based on multiple Choice Lists (CLs) that integrate time and risk. Diminishing impatience with extended time horizons is studied by varying time horizons from one week ... -
Risk preferences, shocks and technology adoption : farmers’ responses to drought risk
(CLTS Working paper;2015:3, Working paper, 2015)Climate risk represents an increasing threat to poor and vulnerable farmers in drought-proneareas of Africa. This study assesses the maize and fertilizer adoption responses of food insecure farmers in Malawi, where Drought ... -
Risky choices of poor people : comparing risk preference elicitation approaches in field experiments
(CLTS Working paper;2014:10, Working paper, 2014)This paper studies the risk preferences of poor rural households in Malawi and compares the Holt and Laury (2002) (HL) multiple price list approach with hypothetical real-world framing and monetary incentive-compatible ... -
Shocks and Stability of Risk Preferences
(CLTS Working paper;05/21, Working paper, 2021)While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed that indicate that risk preferences respond to shocks. This ...