Farmers' Risk Attitudes and Financial Decisions in Southwestern China

447 agricultural operators in Sichuan, Chongqing, and Guizhou provinces participated in an experiment and survey. The data, authored by Siqi Shen and last updated in April 2026, quantifies risk attitudes using the 'Bomb Risk Elicitation Task' and analyzes their impact on borrowing and production decisions.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between risk tolerance and loan size based on experimental risk scores.
• Analyzing demographic heterogeneity in credit decisions based on age and household size variables.
• Studying the preference for formal vs. informal credit channels based on risk attitude.
• Evaluating the impact of risk-driven borrowing on post-loan agricultural income levels.

Strengths

• Data from 447 agricultural operators provides a substantive sample size.
• Risk attitudes are objectively quantified using the 'Bomb Risk Elicitation Task' experimental method.
• Analysis covers a complete credit decision chain from intention to outcome.

Limitations

• The dataset is small at 665.9 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the three southwestern Chinese provinces studied.

Provenance

Source

Siqi Shen via figshare

Collection Method

Experimental and survey data collection.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 05:48:37; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southwestern China (Sichuan, Chongqing, and Guizhou provinces)