Can Climate Shocks Make Vulnerable Subjects More Willing to Take Risks?
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Covariate shocks; Idiosyncratic shocks; Stability of risk preference parameters; Field experiment; Ethiopia;All these keywords.
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- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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