is a gender difference in the reference point, explaining the gender difference in risk aversion observed using … average have a significantly lower reference point. By acknowledging the reference point as a potential source of gender …

competitiveness. All of these aspects are analyzed with respect to the influence of age and gender, and we also consider the role of …

consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices …In the laboratory experiment reported in this paper we explore how evolving institutions and social norms, which we … norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market …

This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that …

understanding. Thoroughly surveying the experimental literature we first find that gender differences are less ubiquitous than … power of the test and show that the magnitude of gender differences, although significant, is economically unimportant. We … conclude that gender differences systematically correlate with the features of the elicitation method used and in particular …

Gender differences in risk attitudes are frequently observed, although recent literature has shown that they are … affects risk attitudes. The presence of a riskless alternative does not entirely explain the gender gap but it has a … determinants of gender differences in risk attitudes. …

This paper employs a hurdle model approach to ask whether the extent of gender bias in education expenditure within … rural households in India changed over time from 1995 to 2017-18. Our most striking finding is that there has been a change … over time in the way that gender bias is practiced within the household. In 1995, gender bias occurred through a …

institutionalization and homelessness, especially among men and as a result there are stark gender ratio imbalances among this population …. We speculate that this gender imbalance may play a role in excess female mortality in addition to several other …

This paper asks whether gender bias in education expenditure in rural India fell over the two-decade period from 1995 … to 2014. We find that instead of falling over time, the channel through which gender bias is practiced changed … channels of gender bias, namely bias in the school enrolment decision, and bias in the conditional educational expenditure …

children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the …