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According to Wikipedia, John Winsor Pratt is Emeritus William Ziegler professor business administration at Harvard University. His former education was conducted at Princeton University and Stanford University, where he specialized in mathematics and statistics. Pratt spent most of his academic career at Harvard University. He was an editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association from 1965 to 1970. His researches on risk aversion, risk sharing incentives, and the nature and discovery of stochastic laws, statistical relationships that describe the effects of decisions. He has made contributions to research in risk aversion theory, notably with Kenneth Arrow on measures of risk aversion.

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RISK AVERSION IN THE SMALL AND IN THE LARGE11This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant NSF-G24035). Reproduction in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government. (1964) (5222)
Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business (1990) (929)
Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory (1996) (535)
Proper risk aversion (1987) (499)
Unbiased Estimation of Certain Correlation Coefficients (1958) (413)
Intuitive Probability on Finite Sets (1959) (408)
Price Differences in almost Competitive Markets (1979) (396)
The Foundations of Decision under Uncertainty: An Elementary Exposition (1964) (287)
Willingness to Pay and the Distribution of Risk and Wealth (1996) (236)
Remarks on Zeros and Ties in the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Procedures (1959) (207)
Concepts of Nonparametric Theory (1981) (202)
Concavity of the Log Likelihood (1981) (186)
On the interpretation and observation of laws (1988) (180)
Length of Confidence Intervals (1961) (180)
A Normal Approximation for Binomial, F, Beta, and other Common, Related Tail Probabilities, II (1968) (174)
P-values: Interpretation and Methodology (1975) (169)
On the nature and discovery of structure (1981) (166)
On Interchanging Limits and Integrals (1960) (144)
Obustness of Some Procedures for the Two-Sample Location Problem (1964) (128)
Bayesian Interpretation of Standard Inference Statements (1965) (120)
Aversion to one risk in the presence of others (1988) (115)
Increasing Risk: Some Direct Constructions (1997) (84)
Efficiency Despite Mutually Payoff-Relevant Private Information: The Finite Case (1990) (79)
A Multivariate Tchebycheff Inequality (1958) (76)
The Contraction Mapping Approach to the Perron-Frobenius Theory: Why Hilbert's Metric? (1982) (72)
Kolmogorov-Smirnov Two-Sample Tests (1981) (53)
The Consistent Assessment and Fairing of Preference Functions (1968) (53)
Paying to improve your chances: Gambling or insurance? (1991) (51)
F. Y. Edgeworth and R. A. Fisher on the Efficiency of Maximum Likelihood Estimation (1976) (51)
Bounding the Effects of Proxy Variables on Regression Coefficients (1986) (50)
On a General Concept of "In Probability" (1959) (44)
Shorter Confidence Intervals for the Mean of a Normal Distribution with Known Variance (1963) (40)
Weak Proper Risk Aversion And The Tempering Effect of Background Risk (1993) (39)
The fair and efficient division of the Winsor family silver (1990) (38)
Testing a Point Null Hypothesis: The Irreconcilability of P Values and Evidence: Comment (1987) (35)
The impact of risk sharing on efficient decision (1989) (32)
Evaluating and Comparing Projects: Simple Detection of False Alarms (1979) (31)
Efficient Risk Sharing: The Last Frontier (2000) (29)
The logic of partial-risk aversion: Paradox lost (1990) (29)
Mechanism Design with Multidimensional, Continuous Types and Interdependent Valuations (2006) (28)
Efficiency of the Sample Mean when Residuals Follow a First-Order Stationary Markoff Process (1968) (24)
Religion, Politics, and Diversity: The Church-State Theme in New York History (1967) (19)
The Accuracy of Peizer Approximations to the Hypergeometric Distribution, with Comparisons to Some other Approximations (1984) (17)
The Development of the American Constitution, 1877–1917 (1972) (17)
Finding How Many Roots a Polynomial has in (0, 1) or (0, ∞) (1979) (13)
Fair (and not so fair) division (2007) (12)
Discussion: On the Consistency of Bayes Estimates (1986) (12)
Statistical and Mathematical Aspects of Pollution Problems (1974) (12)
Inferences from alarming events. (1982) (11)
Decisions as statistical evidence and Birnbaum's ‘confidence concept’ (1977) (10)
On the Nature and Discovery of Structure: Rejoinder (1984) (10)
A discussion of the question: for what use are tests of hypotheses and tests of significance (1976) (10)
Incentive-based Decentralization: Expected-Externality Payments Induce Efficient Behaviour in Groups (1987) (9)
Efficient Design with Interdependent Valuations and an Informed Center (2002) (8)
Paying the expected externality for a price quote achieves bargaining efficiency (1978) (8)
Equilibrium with agglomeration economies (1995) (6)
Multidimensional bargains and the desirability of ex post inefficiency (1992) (6)
Multiattribute Utility and Derived Utility (1987) (6)
Bounding the effects of proxy variables on instrumental-variables coefficients (1987) (6)
Maximizing the Probability That Adjacent Order Statistics of Samples from Several Populations Form Overlapping Intervals (1960) (4)
Admissible One-Sided Tests for the Mean of a Rectangular Distribution (1958) (4)
APPROXIMATING THE BINOMIAL, F, AND COMMONLY USED RELATED DISTRIBUTIONS, I. (1966) (4)
Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects (2008) (4)
Correlated equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the Game (2007) (4)
Religious Conflict in the Development of the New York City Public School System (1965) (4)
The outer needle of some Bayes sequential continuation regions (1966) (3)
Two-Sample Rank Procedures for Location (1981) (3)
One-Sample and Paired-Sample Inferences Based on the Binomial Distribution (1981) (3)
Mapping Closure for Hasegawa--Wakatani Dynamics. (2002) (3)
Delayed compensation for lost income (1993) (2)
The USA's bicentennial census: new directions for methodology in 1990. (1986) (2)
Virgin vs. Experienced Risks (2009) (2)
[Savage Revisited]: Comment (1986) (2)
Religion and Constitutional Government in the United States. By John E. Semonche. Carrboro, N.C.: Signal Books, 1986. 244 pp. n.p. (1987) (1)
The First Freedoms: Church and State in America to the Passage Amendment (1987) (1)
Utility Functions, Interest Rates, and the Demand for Bonds (1989) (1)
Corrigenda: Efficiency of the Sample Mean when Residuals Follow a First- Order Stationary Markoff Process (1969) (1)
Correspondence of the Van Cortlandt Family of Cortlandt Manor, 1815-1848. The Van Cortlandt Family Papers, Vol. 4 (1983) (1)
Concepts of Statistical Inference and the Binomial Distribution (1981) (1)
Strong Inconsistency from Uniform Priors: Comment (1976) (1)
How Many Balance Functions Does it Take to Determine a Utility Function? (2005) (1)
“Duely & Constantly Kept”: A History of the New York Supreme Court, 1691–1847 and An Inventory of Its Records (Albany, Utica, and Geneva Offices), 1797–1847 (1992) (1)
Corrigenda: Does an Observed Sequence of Numbers Follow a Simple Rule? (Another Look at Bode's Law): Comment (1971) (1)
Acknowledgment of Priority: On Interchanging Limits and Integrals (1966) (1)
Some Probability Paradoxes in Choice from Among Random Alternatives: Comment (1972) (1)
SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS, CONFIDENCE LEVELS, CLOSED REGIONS, CLOSED MODELS, AND DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS (1983) (1)
A Note on Unbiased Tests (1962) (1)
Asymptotic Relative Efficiency (2020) (0)
Given to Christ, and Other Sermons (2010) (0)
Corrigenda: Concavity of the Log Likelihood (1982) (0)
Book Reviews (1982) (0)
Nondiscrimination and monotonicity in fair division (2010) (0)
Two-Sample Inferences Based on the Method of Randomization (1981) (0)
Post-Data Two Sample Tests of Location: Comments (1973) (0)
[Applications in Business and Economic Statistics: Some Personal Views]: Comment (1990) (0)
One-Sample and Paired-Sample Inferences Based on Signed Ranks (1981) (0)
Some Results on Repeated Risktaking (1989) (0)
Nonseparability, Sampling, and the Observation of Multidimensional Systems (1994) (0)
Some Neglected Axioms in Fair Division (2008) (0)
One-Sample and Paired-Sample Inferences Based on the Method of Randomization (1981) (0)
A New Interpretation of the F Statistic (1998) (0)
Responses to question relating to statitical theory and business and economic statistics (1990) (0)
Virgin vs. Experienced Risks Carolyn Kousky Resources for the Future (2008) (0)
The Purposes of Social Experimentation (1974) (0)

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