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Citation

Viscusi WK, Evans WN. Rev. Econ. Stat. 1998; 80(1): 28-33.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Publisher MIT Press)

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Abstract

Using survey data on consumer product purchases, this paper introduces an approach to estimate jointly individual utility functions and risk perceptions implied by their decisions. The behavioral risk beliefs reflected in consumers' risky decisions differ from the stated probabilities given to them in the survey, These results are not consistent with a Bayesian learning model in which the information respondents utilize is restricted to what the survey presents. The results are, however, potentially consistent with models in which prior risk information is influential or models in which people do not act in a fully rational manner.

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