Poverty and probability: Aspiration and aversion to compound lotteries in El Salvador and India

Experimental Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 263-284

  Spears, Dean ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound risk; El Salvador; Employment; India; Lab experiments in the field; Poverty; Reduction of compound lotteries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881256308     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-012-9333-9     Document Type: Article

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