one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in … start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results …

reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the gender differential in training incidence using Labour Force Survey …

assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and … risk are moderately heritable, with about 20 percent of the variation in these attitudes across individuals being linked to …) and Zhong, Chew, Set, Zhang, Xue, Sham, Ebstein and Israel (2009). While females are more risk averse than males, there is …

This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its … understanding. Thoroughly surveying the experimental literature we first find that gender differences are less ubiquitous than … power of the test and show that the magnitude of gender differences, although significant, is economically unimportant. We …

This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap … risk are associated with higher earnings, and that gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk can account for a …. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes towards economic risk, it shows that females are …

favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not … to be associated with attitude to risk. …