Anomaly in Decision Making Under Risk:Violation of Stochastic Dominance Among Farmers in Gujarat, India
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Decisions under risk; experiments; stochastic dominance; India;All these keywords.
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- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
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