children's risky activities and parents' ideas on children's risk-taking behaviour

CHILDREN\'S RISKY ACTIVITIES AND PARENTS\' IDEAS ON CHILDREN\'S RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOUR

A cross-sectional study with children's and parents' self-completed questionnaires was carried out to evaluate parents' ideas on children's risk-takjng behaviours and children's risky activities after school hours by age (7 and 9 years) and sex. Nine elementary schools were randomly selected and 476 pupHs aged seven and nine years and 471 parents were studied. Most parents (90.1 %) believed tha...

Inequality and risk-taking behaviour

Becker, Murphy and Werning (2005) found that individuals about to participate in a status tournament may take fair gambles even though they are risk averse in both wealth and status. Here, this insight is matched with that of Hopkins and Kornienko (2010) that in a tournament or status competition one can consider equality either in terms of initial endowments or in terms of the status or reward...

Risky business: exploring adolescent risk-taking behavior.

reasons for riding motorcycles and taking risky behaviors:reasons for riding motorcycles and taking risky behaviors:

introduction: motorcycling is a risky activity and motorcyclists are vulnerable to road accidents. the behavior of motorcyclists is a significant factor of accident. unfortunately there is little information regarding social and mental characteristics of motorcyclists which lead to the accident. the purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth qualitative understanding of reasons for riding a ...

Corporate Managers’ Risky Behavior: Risk Taking or Avoiding?

This study reports on five experiments that investigate professional corporate managers’ risky behavior across decision settings in which various forms of financial data are evaluated. Specifically, managers decisions to take or avoid risk are investigated when evaluating data in the form of profits, losses, revenues, costs, and expenditures. The results indicate that, with one exception (i.e.,...

Health Interventions and Risky Behaviour

This paper reviews the extent to which policy interventions can affect risky behaviours such as smoking, drinking and diet. The justification for such intervention is typically a market failure, broadly defined. The types of market failure typically encountered are discussed. First and second best interventions are examined and there is a review of the efficacy of such interventions with respec...