Abstract
I derive an approximation for the welfare change between two risky income prospects. For two special cases, constant absolute risk-aversion and constant relative risk-aversion, one can give an exact expression for the welfare change. At core, the exact and the approximate expressions for the welfare change build on the change in the certainty equivalent between the two risky income prospects. These results are useful for both theoretical and empirical work on risk valuation, as they provide simple and easy-to-use proxies.
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