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Risk Tolerance 1996

Name: Risk Tolerance 1996
Published: 2017-10-30
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Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Miles S. Kimball; Claudia R. Sahm; Matthew D. Shapiro

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Project Citation:

Kimball, Miles S., Sahm, Claudia R., and Shapiro, Matthew D. Risk Tolerance 1996. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-10-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/E101117V1

Project Description

Summary: In 1996, Miles S. Kimball, Claudia R. Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro used the questions M1-M5 asked in the 1996 Family Interview to impute variables of risk tolerance and risk aversion. For information about the construction of these variables please refer to their paper: Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation." by Miles S.Kimball, Claudia R. Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 99 (May 2009) 363-368, which may be found on our website:

Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation

Please find additional helpful information in the Appendix also found on our website: Risk Tolerance Appendix

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: PSID; Risk Tolerance

Time Period(s): 1996 – 1996

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