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 examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap …. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes towards economic risk, it shows that females are … much more risk averse than males. It then extends this research to show that workers with more favorable attitudes towards …