-scale experiment. Choices react significantly to the stakes and to the size of the choice set. Our experiment rationalizes the gender …

-scale experiment. Choices react significantly to the stakes and to the size of the choice set. Our experiment rationalizes the gender …

understanding. Thoroughly surveying the experimental literature we first find that gender differences are less ubiquitous than … power of the test and show that the magnitude of gender differences, although significant, is economically unimportant. We … conclude that gender differences systematically correlate with the features of the elicitation method used and in particular …

This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that …

gender, and the complexity of the tasks. We do so using both non-parametric tests and a structural model estimated with … maximum likelihood. We find that the estimated risk aversion parameters vary greatly across tasks and that gender differences …

gender, and the complexity of the tasks. We do so using both non-parametric tests and a structural model estimated with … maximum likelihood. We find that the estimated risk aversion parameters vary greatly across tasks and that gender differences …

population for our experiment. By presenting subjects with choice tasks that vary the bias induced by random choices, we are able …

an economic experiment with subjects from all walks of life, that using structural estimation that models heterogeneity …

Gender differences in risk attitudes are frequently observed, although recent literature has shown that they are … affects risk attitudes. The presence of a riskless alternative does not entirely explain the gender gap but it has a … determinants of gender differences in risk attitudes. …