probability. -- Risk aversion ; competitiveness ; gender ; culture ; mixed-sex competition …This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set … rating. In line with previous research, we find that women are more risk-averse than men. A novel finding is that males …

Models (IAMs), which assumes no risk sharing across region, we introduce global risk sharing via a market for state … across regions. We estimate that such risk sharing scheme of climate risks could lead to welfare gains reducing the global … for considering risk sharing in IAMs, but also for potentially welfare increasing negotiations about sharing risks of …

In this study we empirically investigate the contribution of personality traits to the gender gap in entrepreneurship … significantly to the gender gap in entrepreneurship. The lower level of IEA is mainly due to women’s lower levels of competitiveness … and risk tolerance. Furthermore, these results are confirmed by the results of a country-level analysis which show that …

Though gender equality has been at the centre of debate over the last decades, a number of benefits concerning the … terms. The goal is to contribute to the literature streams on gender economics and on sustainable finance. Most research on … develops disaggregate scores for each dimension, but also provides motivation for the measurement of gender equality by means …

the power to enforce normative behavior, that the gender gap in survival rates has declined, that women have a larger …

the power to enforce normative behavior, that the gender gap in survival rates has declined, that women have a larger …

The coefficient of relative risk aversion (CRRA) is notoriously difficult to estimate. Recently, Barro and Jin (On the …