Experimental evidence against the paradigm of mortality risk aversion

Risk Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 590-604

  Rheinberger, Christoph M ^a,b  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Disutility elicitation; Perceived mortality risk; Risk preferences; Stated choice experiments

Indexed keywords

CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; DECISION MAKERS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FATAL ACCIDENTS; GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY; MORTALITY RISK; RISK PREFERENCE; SOCIETAL IMPACTS;

RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MORTALITY RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77950810490     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01353.x     Document Type: Article

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