A failed attempt to explain within subject variation in risk taking behavior using domain specific risk attitudes

• Published in: Journal of economic behavior & organization Vol. 87; pp. 1 - 24
• Main Authors: Deck, Cary, Lee, Jungmin, Reyes, Javier A., Rosen, Christopher C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.03.2013; Elsevier Sequoia S.A
• Subjects: Attitudes; Behavior; Elicitation; Hypotheses; Laboratories; Laboratory experiments; Personality traits; Psychological aspects; Psychology; Risk; Risk attitudes; Risk taking; Risk taking behavior; Studies; Risk attitudes; D8; Risk taking behavior; Laboratory experiments; C9; Personality traits

► This paper reports the results of a study measuring risk taking behavior using multiple paid elicitation tasks. ► Consistent with previous puzzling results in the literature, we find considerable within subject variation in behavior across tasks. Participants also completed surveys to measure doma...