Can risk aversion explain schooling attainments? Evidence from Italy

Labour Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 957-970

  Belzil, Christian ^a,b,c,d   Leonardi, Marco ^b,e  

^a Centre de National de Recherche Scientifique (GATE)   (France)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c Canada H3A 2T7   (Canada)

^d CIRANO ^*  (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic discrete choices; Risk aversion; Schooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548985853     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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