Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73136 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 508
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
We examine whether the experience of shocks influences individual risk attitude. We measure risk attitude via a simple survey item, compiled among more than 4,000 households in Thailand and Vietnam. The experience of adverse shocks, which is typical for poor and vulnerable households, is related to a higher degree of risk aversion, even when controlled for a large set of socio-demographic variables. Therefore, shocks perpetuate vulnerability to poverty via their effect on risk attitude. We extend this general finding to various categories of shocks and find differences between Thailand and Vietnam. This suggests that risk-coping strategies profit from case-specific design.
Subjects: 
Risk attitude
shocks
vulnerability
risk perception
behavior towards risk
Southeast Asia
JEL: 
O12
D81
R2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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