Plausibly Exogenous [704] - Risk Preferences (12/23/2021)
LHS Variable
Individual risk preferences
RHS Variable
Violence
Source of Exogenous Variation
Kenya’s postelection crisis, which interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict prior to the survey
- Jakiela and Ozier (2019), “The impact of violence on individual risk preferences: evidence from a natural experiment”