Adema Joop, Nikolka Till, Poutvaara Panu, Sunde Uwe
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Poschingerstraße 5, Munich, 81679, Germany.
University of Munich (LMU), Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Munich, 80539, Germany.
Econ Lett. 2022 Jan;210:110172. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110172. Epub 2021 Nov 27.
We exploit the unique design of a repeated survey experiment among students in four countries to explore the stability of risk preferences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relative to a baseline before the pandemic, we find that self-assessed willingness to take risks decreased while the willingness to take risks in an incentivized lottery task increased, for the same sample of respondents. These findings suggest domain specificity of preferences that is partly reflected in the different measures.
我们利用在四个国家的学生中进行的重复调查实验的独特设计，来探究在新冠疫情背景下风险偏好的稳定性。相对于疫情之前的基线水平，我们发现，对于相同的受访者样本，自我评估的冒险意愿下降了，而在有激励的彩票任务中的冒险意愿增加了。这些发现表明偏好具有领域特异性，这在不同的测量方法中得到了部分体现。
