Risk Preferences

Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences
Using new methods, we measure the intensities of higher-order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an incentivized experiment …
Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
PDF DOI: 10.1257/aer.20211217 Online Appendix (Supplemental Appendix) Supplementary Material (2025)
Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences
Measuring Utility - An Application to Measuring (Higher-Order) Risk Preferences & Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences - Invited Talk @ Conference on the Frontiers of Measurement and Formation of Skills
On invitation by James Heckman, I’ll be presenting my work on higher-order risk preferences
Mar 14, 2025 — Mar 15, 2025 Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Sebastian O. Schneider
Income Risk, Precautionary Saving, and Loss Aversion – An Empirical Test
Loss aversion is typically associated with poor financial decisions. In contrast, loss-aversion based precautionary saving theories …
Marcela Ibanez, Sebastian O. Schneider
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One size fits all? The interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality
Incentives are supposed to increase effort, yet individuals react differently to incentives. We examine this heterogeneity by …
Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
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Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences - Seminar Talk @ University of Amsterdam
On Thursday, May 11, I’ll be presenting our paper at the CREED Seminar series - If you’re interested and happen to be around, come and join the talk!
May 11, 2023 4:00 PM E building
Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior – A randomized educational intervention
We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students …
Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller, Manuel Froitzheim, Sebastian O. Schneider
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