This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and … representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which … child becomes older. These findings show that parenthood leads to considerable changes in individual risk attitudes over …

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

advice primarily on gender. -- Gender ; risk aversion ; financial behavior …We investigate whether the willingness to take investment risk is a sex-linked trait and link the results to the … country’s gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on …

strong evidence for gender-specific norms in risk taking. While these explain part of the existing gender gap in risk taking … choices being observed, compared to anonymity of choices, on risk taking in a laboratory experiment. I relate participants …' investments in a risky asset directly to social norms for risk taking that are elicited in an incentivized procedure. I find that …

Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk … attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the … perceives the threat of job loss and is of a transitory nature. The change in stated risk attitude matches observable job …

Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared … to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate … educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky future income paths and therefore depends on risk and time preferences …

A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …

is best explained by reference-dependent risk preferences and reference-dependent strategic sophistication. We discuss …