are negativelycorrelated with a correlation coefficient of -.3. Furthermore we explain ? and ? by income,age, gender …

-down" model of executive optimization. Others, like salience theory, assume a "bottom-up" influence where attention is driven by …-specific and decisionspecific variation in attention and verify our framework in an eye-tracking experiment on risky choice. We … aversion. We discuss the insights regarding the nature of attention and its role in economic theory. …

Competition involves two dimensions, rivalry for resources and social-status ranking. In our experiment we exclude the … first dimension and investigate gender differences in the preference for status ranking. Participants perform a task under … being personal) and whether the ranking will be done by a man or a woman. We find no gender difference in mean status …

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender … gender difference in average chosen tax rates in the performance conditions. We find that this gender difference is mainly …

that theory predicts an inversion when consumers are either risk or loss averse. In those cases, an increase in price …