This study estimates the impact of Kenya’s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, this timing creates plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict by the time of the survey. The study measures individual risk preferences using hypothetical lottery choice questions, which are validated by showing that they predict migration and...
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تفاصيل
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2015/10/14
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ورقة عمل خاصة ببحوث السياسات
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WPS7440
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1
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2015/10/14
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Disclosed
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The impact of violence on individual risk preferences : evidence from a natural experiment
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risk preference