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In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …
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This paper reviews the results from experimental measures of risk aversion for evidence of systematic differences in the behavior of men and women. In most studies, women are found to be more averse to risk than men. Studies with contextual frames show less consistent results
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This paper analyzes gender differences in the disposition effect in an experiment based on Weber and Camerer (1998 …
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We study the correlation of choice under risk in Holt-Laury lotteries for gains and losses with gender, the use of … preferences and the digit ratio are observed in either gender and/or race. Females who use hormonal contraceptives are more likely …
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Laboratory experiments involving a real effort task are conducted to examine the importance of gender differences in … competition aversion for generating gender wage gaps. Cross-subject design treatment and control experiments suggest that gender … differences in risk aversion play no significant role in competitive (tournament) vs. piece-rate job choices and consequent gender …
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incentives. Gender differences in risk taking may be due to differences in subjects’ valuations of outcomes or to the way … pessimistic in the gain domain. The combination of both effects results in significant gender differences in average probability …
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menus. Applications involve using inferred risk preferences to document demographic effects, e.g. gender, and to explain the …
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This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences … matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender differences in actual risk preferences, but evidence for culture …
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first dimension and investigate gender differences in the preference for status ranking. Participants perform a task under … being personal) and whether the ranking will be done by a man or a woman. We find no gender difference in mean status …-ranking aversion when the ranking is personal. When the ranking is imposed, there are still no gender differences in the preferences …
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