TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Akgüç, Mehtap
AU  - Liu, Xingfei
AU  - Tani, Massimiliano
AU  - Zimmermann, Klaus F.
        TI  - Risk Attitudes and Migration
        PY  - 2015/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9347
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9347
        AB  - To contribute to a scarce literature, in particular for developing and emerging economies, we study the nature of measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC data for China, we find that rural-urban migrants and their family members are substantially less risk-averse than stayers. We further provide evidence that individual risk attitudes are unaffected by substantial changes in the environment and that risk tolerance is correlated across generations.
        KW  - risk aversion
KW  - risk attitudes
KW  - migration
KW  - China
        ER  -