Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: an experiment in rural Ethiopia

DOI10.1007/s11238-011-9250-yzbMath1281.91058MaRDI QIDQ1934270

Haileselassie Medhin, Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Stefan T. Trautmann

Publication date: 28 January 2013

Published in: Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-011-9250-y

zbMATH Keywords

agriculture; poverty; risk attitudes; ambiguity attitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91B06: Decision theory

91B08: Individual preferences

91A90: Experimental studies

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