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In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …
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bubbles. We consider a setting where participants sorted according to their degree of risk aversion trade in experimental … asset markets. We show that risk sorting is able to explain bubbles partially: Markets with the most risk-tolerant traders … exhibit larger bubbles than markets with the most risk averse traders. In our study risk aversion does not correlate with …
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This study examines whether investors’ attitudes toward ambiguity can explain cross-sectional stock returns by investigating the relationship between future stock returns and option-implied volatilities as well as implied third moments. We find that investors’ attitudes toward different...
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The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory …
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We test if firms statistically discriminate workers based on race when employer learning is asymmetric. Using data from the NLSY79, we find evidence of asymmetric employer learning. In addition, employers statistically discriminate against non-college educated black workers at time of hiring. We...
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them: Consistent with statistical discrimination theory, minority referrals are more likely to receive a job offer than non …
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