The effects of social information and luck on risk behavior of small-scale fishers at Lake Victoria

  • We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to examine how personal experience of good or bad luck and information about the behavior of others influence the risk taking behavior of small-scale fishers in Tanzania. These fishers make many risky decisions in their daily lives, and a better understanding of the factors influencing risky decisions is important from both a policy and scientific perspective. Our results show a slight tendency for fishers to take more risk in a lottery if they have been unlucky in another game shortly before. Risk taking is enhanced by social information when fishers learn that others have taken more risk. This is true although risks are independent and the fishers do not know whether the risk taking of others has ultimately paid off.

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Author:Astrid Dannenberg, Florian DiekertORCiDGND, Philipp Händel
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1039277
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/103927
ISSN:0167-4870OPAC
Parent Title (English):Journal of Economic Psychology
Publisher:Elsevier BV
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2023/04/21
Tag:Economics and Econometrics; Applied Psychology; Sociology and Political Science
Volume:90
First Page:102493
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2022.102493
Institutes:Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fakultätsübergreifende Institute und Einrichtungen
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Fakultätsübergreifende Institute und Einrichtungen / Zentrum für Klimaresilienz
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre / Professur für Umweltökonomik
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Licence (German):CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand)