Assessing individual risk attitudes using field data from lottery games

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 218-226

  Fullenkamp, Connel ^a   Tenorio, Rafael ^c   Battalio, Robert ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0037321028     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.2003.85.1.218     Document Type: Review

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