Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip J. - In: Handbook of experimental economics results : volume 1, (pp. 1061-1073). 2008
This chapter reviews the results from experimental measures of risk aversion for evidence of systematic differences in the behavior of men and women. In most studies, women are found to be more averse to risk than men. Studies with contextual frames show less consistent results. Whether men and...
