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

stability ; experimental validation ; fiel experiment ; SOEP ; gender differences ; age ; height ; subjective well-being … questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about … the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a representative …

This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability … individuals are found to be more risk averse, in agreement with common findings. Unlike previous studies that ascribed gender …

; productivity ; ability ; piece rates ; tournament ; revenue sharing ; risk preferences ; overconfidence ; gender ; experiment …This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main …

. Our results further indicate that the consistency of risk attitudes across the tasks depends on gender of the subject …

-scale experiment. Choices react significantly to the stakes and to the size of the choice set. Our experiment rationalizes the gender …

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