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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Main Authors: Jakiela, P. (Author), Ozier, O. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MIT Press Journals 2019
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