strong evidence for gender-specific norms in risk taking. While these explain part of the existing gender gap in risk taking …

We study the influence of gender on economic decision making in a two-person bargaining game. By testing hypotheses … derived from evolutionary psychology and social role theory, we find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on … behavior, whereas (2) gender pairing systematically affects behavior. In particular we observe much more competition and …

. While part of this effect may be explained by gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence, previous studies have … attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result … experimental design. In contrast to the literature, our results imply that the whole gender gap is driven by risk attitudes and …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …