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 …-specific stereotypes. Like men in Western societies, Palawan men overestimate women’s actual risk aversion. By contrast, Teop men …

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 … child becomes older. These findings show that parenthood leads to considerable changes in individual risk attitudes over …

We survey the literature on estimating risk preferences using field data. We concentrate our attention on studies in … which risk preferences are the focal object and estimating their structure is the core enterprise. We review a number of … models of risk preferences — including both expected utility (EU) theory and non-EU models — that have been estimated using …

We relate an observed difference between single men (SM) and single women (SW) in attitudes towards risk to the higher … low relative wealth reduces relative risk aversion. …

We relate an observed difference between single men (SM) and single women (SW) in attitudes towards risk to the higher … low relative wealth reduces relative risk aversion …

We relate an observed difference between single men (SM) and single women (SW) in attitudes towards risk to the higher … low relative wealth reduces relative risk aversion. …

sophisticated agent who is fully aware of such an inconsistency. Our characterization holds for general risk preferences. We apply … our results to several distinct classes of risk preference models. We show that although some specific models related to …

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 … child becomes older. These findings show that parenthood leads to considerable changes in individual risk attitudes over …