The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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 exp...

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Main Authors: Jakiela, Pamela, Ozier, Owen
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25155020/impact-violence-individual-risk-preferences-evidence-natural-experiment
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22862

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