Attitudes Toward Risk
Theoretical Implications of an Experiment in Rural India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9712949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hans P Binswanger (World Bank, corresponding author), Mark R Rosenzweig (0000-0002-6323-1418, World Bank, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 364 |
| Pages | 867 |
| Publication date | 1981-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2232497 |
| OpenAlex | W2106109364 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 140 |
| References cited | 1 |
Journal Article Attitudes Toward Risk: Theoretical Implications of an Experiment in Rural India Get access Hans P. Binswanger Hans P. Binswanger The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 364, 1 December 1981, Pages 867–890, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232497 Published: 01 December 1981
Economics · Political science · Sociology · Agricultural risk and resilience · Corruption and Economic Development · Social and Economic Development in India
The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions
The Demand for Microinsurance
Risk aversion and credit constraints in farmers' decision‐making
Population and Savings
Contracts With Eviction in Infinitely Repeated Principal–Agent Relationships
Food Needs and Work Capacity
Interlinkages and the Pattern of Competition
Peasants' Risk Aversion and the Choice of Marketing Intermediaries and Contracts
A Note on Interlinked Rural Economic Arrangements
Axiomatic Bargaining Theory
Agrarian Structure, Technological Innovations, and the State
Institutional Analysis of Credit Co‐Operatives
Theories of Sharecropping
Poverty and the Environmental Resource Base
On Choice Among Creditors and Bonded Labour Contracts
A Comparison of Principal–Agent and Bargaining Solutions
The Objects of Social Contracts
The Commodity Basis of Well‐Being
Well‐Being
Incentives and Development Policies
Credit Rationing, Tenancy, Productivity, and the Dynamics of Inequality
Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms When Nutrition Affects Productivity
Production Relations in Semi‐Arid African Agriculture
Resource Allocation Mechanisms
Public Goods and Common‐Property Resources
Decentralization and Central Guidance
Net National Product in a Dynamic Economy
Land, Labour, Savings, and Credit
Agricultural Institutions for Insurance and Stabilization
Real National Income as a Measure of General Well‐Being
Political Morality and the State
Uncertainty, Insurance, and Social Norms
The Realization of Well‐Being
Inequality, Malnutrition, and the Disfranchised
Food, Care, and Work
Rational Peasants, Efficient Institutions, and a Theory of Rural Organization
Rural Credit Markets
Adaptation to Undernourishment
The Economic theory of agrarian institutions
Classical Utilitarianism in a Limited World
Fertility and Resources
Some Aspects of Linked Product and Credit Market Contracts Among Risk‐Neutral Agents
Agricultural Producer Co‐Operatives
Strategic Complementarities in Fertility Decisions
Households and Credit Restraints
Education, Migration and Productivity
The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
Field Experiments
Eliciting risk preferences
Risk and Time Preferences
Elicitation using multiple price list formats
Forecasting risk attitudes
Raising the Stakes in the Ultimatum Game
The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics
Experimental methods
On Crop Biodiversity, Risk Exposure, and Food Security in the Highlands of Ethiopia
Alternative Approaches to the Theory of Institutions in Economic Development
Credit and Agrarian Class Structure
Time preferences, risk preferences and the adoption of household level water treatment in Rural Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Pandemic Shocks and Household Spending
Solving problems with an Aha! increases risk preference
Leniency experiments
Does risk aversion affect individuals’ interests and actions in angel investing? Empirical evidence from Japan
Exploring the bounded rationality in human decision anomalies through an assemblable computational framework
The Health of Farmer-Based Organisations in Ghana
Smallholder Farmer Risk Preferences in Northern Ghana
Targeted Transfers in Poor Countries
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
Social Welfare of Alternative Controlled-Price Policies
Time to Change What to Sow
Economic Behavior Under Uncertainty
The Small-Sample Bias of the Gini Coefficient
Assessing Individual Risk Attitudes Using Field Data From Lottery Games
Risk-seeking or impatient? Disentangling variance and time in hazardous behaviors
Risk-seeking or impatient? Disentangling variance and time in hazardous behaviors
Expériences de laboratoire en économie et incitations monétaires
Entropy and the Value of Information for Investors
La stabilisation des prix aux producteurs agricoles
Financial inclusion for agricultural investments
Does adversity affect long-term financial behaviour? Evidence from China’s rustication programme
Risk aversion, time preference and health production
Individual risk preference as a predictor of health behaviour
How endogenous risk preferences and sample selection affect analysis of firm survival
Nothing to Lose
Risk attitudes within farmer cooperative organizations
Microinsurance Decisions
Responding to change
Enforcement and inequality in collective PES to reduce tropical deforestation
Risky Business? Rural Entrepreneurship in Subsistence Markets
Risk Attitudes and the ‘Vicious Circle of Poverty’
Impact Evaluation – Are We ‘Off the Gold Standard’
Price vs. weather shock hedging for cash crops
Mental accounting matters
The role of farmers’ trust, risk and time preferences for contract choices
Non-farm income, household welfare, and sustainable land management in a less-favoured area in the Ethiopian highlands
Risk preferences, risk perceptions, and risky food
Can differences in individual learning explain patterns of technology adoption? Evidence on heterogeneous learning patterns and hybrid rice adoption in Bihar, India
The mixed impacts of peer punishments on common-pool resources
Optimal grain pricing and storage policy in controlled agricultural economies
Technology adoption and risk exposure among smallholder farmers
| Unique citing works | 140 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,26 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2026 (44) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 137 |