Higher-order risk preferences and livelihood choices of farmers from West Bengal, India
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Livelihood diversification; Risk preferences; Prudence; Temperance; Experiments; Indian farmers;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
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