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possible outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes. There is a strong consensus view in the … outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. We find no evidence that the likelihood of reporting about gender …This paper exploits a large dataset of replications of the Holt and Laury (2002) risk elicitation task to study a …
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This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds … funds’ exposure to known risk factors. Employing a quantile regression approach reveals that fund performance is highly …
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-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …
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countries had - de facto - been perceived as a homogenous group with regard to the role of public debt for sovereign risk …
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that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
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Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …
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environments modify studentsf risk]taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth … they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …
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This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of...
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Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more … preference for a taller husband, can partly explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and …
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