The impact of violence on individual risk preferences : evidence from a natural experiment (English)

This study estimates the impact of Kenya’s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, this timing creates plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict by the time of the survey. The study measures individual risk preferences using hypothetical lottery choice questions, which are validated by showing that they predict migration and...

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Jakiela,Pamela;

Ozier,Owen;
Document Date
2015/10/14
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS7440
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Kenya,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2015/10/14
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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The impact of violence on individual risk preferences : evidence from a natural experiment
Keywords
risk preference

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Jakiela,Pamela; Ozier,Owen.

The impact of violence on individual risk preferences : evidence from a natural experiment (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7440 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/100191468188937680

The impact of violence on individual risk preferences : evidence from a natural experiment (English)

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