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 … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were …

that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …

experiments on gender differences in competition may have measured a lower bound of differences between men and women. …

experiments on gender differences in competition may have measured a lower bound of differences between men and women. …

that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …

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 …

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 …