BACKGROUND Knowledge mobilization (KM) has been described as putting research in the hands of research users. Network analysis is an empirical approach that has potential for examining the complex process of knowledge mobilization within community-based organizations (CBOs). Yet, conducting a network analysis in a CBO presents challenges. PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate th...

BACKGROUND Important barriers to the wider implementation of shared decision making (SDM) and risk communication in practice remain. The attitudes of professionals undergoing training in these approaches may inform how to overcome these barriers, but there are few such data yet available. AIM To identify the attitudes of professionals during participation in a large practice-based interventio...

This paper utilizes nonparametric tests to investigate the following hypotheses: One, that there is no difference in household wealth distributions derived from the Survey of Consumer Finances for three survey years during the 1990s, namely, 1992, 1995, and 1998. Two, that there is consistency between households attitudes to taking financial risk and their financial risk taking behavior. Three ...

This paper presents an axiomatic approach to extend the EUT to multi-periods. The standard time-separable form is recovered when the functions describing the risk and substitution attitudes are identical. Further, I argue that the standard analysis of risk aversion neglects the agent’s option to trade his lottery outcome. With trading, an agent is not indifferent to the timing of resolution of ...

We study the risk attitudes of an important segment of the economy: managers. We conduct artefactual field experiments with 130 managers from 12 industrial companies. Our analysis is particularly careful to evaluate alternative models of decision-making under risk. In general, we find that the managers in our sample are moderately risk averse. Assuming a standard EUT model they exhibit similar ...

This paper aims to extend the results by Ross [15] and by Modica and Scarsini [13] to stochastic dominance of degree 4 and over. Specifically, it is shown that Ross’ approach can be extended to any order of risk attitude beyond the generalization proposed by Modica and Scarsini by means of sth degree increase in risk defined by Ekern [8].

Relative wealth concerns can affect risk-taking behavior, as the payoff to a marginal dollar of wealth depends on the wealth of others. In particular, status concerns that arise endogenously due to competition in the marriage market can lead to greater risktaking if the more desirable mates prefer wealthier suitors. We evaluate empirically the importance of this effect in a high-stakes setting ...

I introduce an integrated model of risk attitudes and other-regarding preferences that extends the standard notion of inequity discount to lotteries. In this model, a decision maker perceives inequity partly by comparing the marginal risks she and others face. It predicts that fairness considerations will alter risk attitudes, in particular, a higher tolerance to positively correlated (fair) ri...

Although farmers in developing countries are generally thought to be risk averse, little is known about the actual form of their risk preferences. In this paper, we use a relatively large field experiment to explore risk preferences related to sweet potato production among a sample of farmers in northern Mozambique. We explicitly test whether preferences follow the constant relative risk aversi...