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APPLIED ECONOMICS
Volume 36, Issue 21, Pages 2443-2451Publisher
ROUTLEDGE TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000280580
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Attitudes towards risk are measured for households in Northern Zambia using an experimental gambling approach with real payoffs that at maximum were equal to 30% of average total annual income per capita. The results of the experiment show decreasing absolute risk aversion and increasing partial risk aversion. Determinants of risk aversion are investigated using random effects interval regression model exploiting the panel data structure of the repeated experiments. Wealth indicator variables are found to be significant, and partial relative risk aversion decreases as wealth increases. Females are found to be more risk averse than males.
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