opening of 420 million bank accounts, of which 53.26% belonged to women, though surveys have suggested that almost 55% of …

the model on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe, we find land ownership to be …

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 …

playing behavior consistent with women being more averse towards risk and competition. Moreover, we demonstrate how "shying …

This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its …

generalizations on how gender relates to risk aversion is not supported. Rather non-financial approaches may explain how social …