Michael Callen|Mohammad Isaqzadeh|James E. Long|Charles Sprenger
Violence and Risk Preference: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA Health|American University of Afghanistan|University of Washington|Stanford University
investigate relationship violence economic risk preferences afghanistan combining twopart experimental procedure identifying risk preferences violations expected utility specific preferences certainty ii controlled recollection fear based established methods psychology iii administrative violence data precisely geocoded military records document specific preference certainty violation expected utility preference certainty term certainty premium exacerbated combination violent exposure controlled fearful recollections results implications risk taking potentially actionable policymakers marketers jel a12 c91 d12 d74 d81 o12 o17