pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … controlled experiment in which subjects were given an opportunity to choose a risky outcome - a real-stakes gamble with a higher … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in …

We explore different contexts and mechanisms that might promote or alleviate the gender effect in risk aversion. Our … main result is that we do not find gender differences in risk aversion when the choice is framed as a willingness …. These findings imply gender differences in the endowment effect. We also find that the effect size of the gender difference …

A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in …

reveals overconfidence (underconfidence). The individual is well calibrated if he or she chooses the third alternative …

they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … additional individual characteristics such as subjects’ risk attitudes, measures of selfassessment and overconfidence, social … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main …

work environments. We examine the relationship between, and the driving forces behind, individual overconfidence and … voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men … significantly more cooperative, whereas overconfidence, beliefs, and cooperativeness are not correlated in women. …

equilibrium. We find almost complete crowding out with exogenous taxation. Voting behavior with respect to the tax in the … endogenous treatment has high predictive power for voluntary contributions, but only when voting on a tax that is below the Nash …

contributions or taxation, 23 out of 24 voting decisions favor taxation. Taxation appears to be superior on grounds of both long run …