choices being observed, compared to anonymity of choices, on risk taking in a laboratory experiment. I relate participants … strong evidence for gender-specific norms in risk taking. While these explain part of the existing gender gap in risk taking …

experiment with a large representative sample (N = 1,832), we vary whether risky choices are induced to be based on either …

. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of … financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance … ; executives ; risk taking ; age ; gender ; education …

. 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 …

experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study, and task difficulty in promotion application decisions. Our study …The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits … pro- vides three crucial findings. First, gender differences in self-limiting promotion application behavior are only …