Status, Intertemporal Choice, and Risk-Taking

Econometrica

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1505-1531

  Ray, Debraj ^a   Robson, Arthur ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitudes to risk; Growth; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864317389     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA9042     Document Type: Article

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