Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: an experiment in rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay1, Peter Martinsson2, Haileselassie Medhin2, Stefan T. Trautmann3
1IZA—Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany
2Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
3Department of Economics, TIBER & CentER, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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