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Safe Options Induce Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes
Crosetto, Paolo - 2017
Gender differences in risk attitudes are frequently observed, although recent literature has shown that they are context dependent rather than ubiquitous. In this paper we try to rationalize the heterogeneity of results investigating experimentally whether the presence of a safe option among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955024
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A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes
Filippin, Antonio - 2014
This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its understanding. Thoroughly surveying the experimental literature we first find that gender differences are less ubiquitous than usually depicted. Gathering the microdata of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053437
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory : Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2023
with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combiningrepresentative survey data with representative … behavioral data from a social dilemmaexperiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust correlate … wellwith behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilledworkers and people living in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255643