Deciding about human lives: an experimental measure of risk attitudes under prospect theory

DOI10.1007/s00355-018-1111-yzbMath1397.91211OpenAlexW2792759366MaRDI QIDQ1649094

Emmanuel Kemel, Corina Paraschiv

Publication date: 5 July 2018

Published in: Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-018-1111-y

zbMATH Keywords

experimentprospect theoryrisk attitudeshuman lives

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Utility theory (91B16) Experimental studies (91A90)

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