Replication data for: Violence and Risk Preference: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan: Comment
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Project Citation:
Vieider, Ferdinand M. Replication data for: Violence and Risk Preference: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan: Comment. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113142V1
Project Description
Summary:
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In this comment on Callen et al. (2014), I revisit recent evidence uncovering a "preference for certainty" in violation of dominant normative and descriptive theories of decision-making under risk. I show that the empirical findings are potentially confounded by systematic noise. I then develop choice lists that allow me to disentangle these different explanations. Experimental results obtained with these lists reject explanations based on a preference for certainty in favor of explanations based on random choice. From a theoretical point of view, the levels of risk aversion detected in the choice list involving certainty can be accounted for by prospect theory through reference dependence activated by salient outcomes.
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JEL Classification:
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A12 Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
C91 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
D81 Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
A12 Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
C91 Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
D81 Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
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