The impact of violence on individual risk preferences: Evidence from a natural experiment
—We estimate the impact of Kenya’s postelection crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict prior to the survey. Our results indicate that the postele...
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MIT Press Journals
2019
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