investment game allows us to test the robustness of the findings. We find a very consistent result that women invest less, and … economic issues. We assemble the data from 15 sets of experiments with one simple underlying investment game. Most of these … thus appear to be more financially risk averse than men. …

We study the following basic intuition: when faced with a decision how to split their investment between a risky … loss aversion) to show this. First we replicate the previous results in a laboratory experiment with financial incentives …, and then test whether participants are willing to explicitly pay a small sum of money in line with the bias (pay for less …

thousands of participants in a simple investment game, and also conduct our own experiments. The previous experiments were not … be more risk averse than men in their financial investments …

We test experimentally an explanation of over and under confidence as motivated by (perhaps unconscious) strategic … others’ statements of confidence about how well they have scored on an IQ test. In two-player tournaments where the highest …

We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden …

data to test for this effect in a simulated labor relatonship. We find a consistent discrepancy between employer beliefs …

experiment to explore optimal contracts in an adverse-selection context. A principal proposes one of three contract menus, each …