longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …

country's gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against … one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other …-compete but find no evidence of a gender difference in the willingnessto self-compete. We explore the roles of risk and confidence …

's substantive gender-related selection into competition. Nonetheless, women who are overconfident, i.e. over-estimate own abilities … in performing a task, enter competition regardless of the gender-mix. Hence, the gender-pairing phenomenon is driven by …

significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

,250 participants. Our original motivation was to study gender differences, but ultimately we could not replicate the entitlement effect …