Poverty and probability: aspiration and aversion to compound lotteries in El Salvador and India
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Keywords
Poverty; Reduction of compound lotteries; Compound risk; Employment; El Salvador; India; Lab experiments in the field; O12; D80; D10; J20;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
- D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
- J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
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