结合某监狱服刑人员数据和中国家庭金融调查数据,本文研究发现罪犯更可能属于风险规避者,但风险规避程度比普通人更低,低风险敏感度也正是其选择高风险犯罪活动的重要原因。以样本是否经常系好安全带作为风险态度的工具变量,我们对风险态度与犯罪选择之间的因果关系做了稳健性估计。尽管我们还发现了风险态度对人们选择财产型犯罪还是非财产型犯罪有影响,但在犯罪的频率和严重性方面却没有发现二者有关的证据。 Based on the data of a prison inmates and the data from China Family Financial Survey, this study finds that criminals are more likely to be risk averseers, but risk aversion is lower than that of ordinary people and low risk sensitivity is also an important reason for choosing high-risk criminal activities . Taking a sample of whether or not the seat belt is often fastened as a risk-based instrumental variable, we make a robust estimate of the causal relationship between risk attitudes and choice of crime. Although we also found that risk attitudes have an impact on people choosing property crimes or non-property crimes, no evidence has been found about the frequency and severity of the crimes.