How to Ask Farmers about Risk to Help Design Agricultural Policies

Research Brief
1 December 2019

Maria A. Naranjo, Francisco Alpizar, Peter Martinsson

Researchers and officials interested in people’s attitudes toward risk when designing public policies should make sure that their questions about risk are asked in the specific context of the policy rather than in general abstract questions.

Although field experimental methods are the workhorse of researchers interested in risk preferences, practitioners find surveys easier to implement. We compare results from experimental versus survey-based methods to elicit farmers’ risk attitudes, in both general settings and specific contexts. Our results indicate that one should be careful in thinking that a risk attitude in one context will be the same in a different context.

Sustainable Development Goals

Request a publication

Due to Copyright we cannot publish this article but you are very welcome to request a copy from the author. Please just fill in the information beneath.

Authors I want to contact
Publication | 18 May 2020