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Do children make women more patient? Experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
This paper studies gender heterogeneity in preferences. We used experimental methods to elicit the subjective discount … discount rate is related to number of children. No gender difference is found for individuals without children. Women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322205
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Performance Pay and Multidimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2011
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334140
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Gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James Joseph - 2009
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274253
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Trust in cooperation or ability? An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - 2007
We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do … not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293426
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Risk attitude in couples
Bacon, Philomena M.; Conte, Anna; Moffatt, Peter G. - 2012
The determinants of risk attitude in couples are explored using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel over the period 2004 to 2009. The focus of the analysis is the repeated responses to the survey question about general willingness to take risk. Responses to this question are provided on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291807
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Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game: An experimental analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - 2012
For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291803
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Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game: An experimental analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - 2010
For our experiment on corruption we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301733
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Incentive effects on risk attitude in small probability prospects
Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009
prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities … predicted by the prospect theory. But under high stakes, we provide some evidence that risk seeking behavior is dramatically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277023
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Are attitudes towards economic risk heritable? Analyses using the Australian twin study of gambling
Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W.; Slutske, Wendy S.; … - 2010
of other key variables, such as gender and educational attainment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275696
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Gender differences in risk aversion: Do single-sex environments affect their development?
Booth, Alison; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - 2011
economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282545