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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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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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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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-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …
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While a substantial literature in economics and finance has concluded that women are more risk averse than men, this conclusion merits reconsideration. Drawing on literatures in statistics and cognitive science, this essay discusses the important difference between drawing conclusions based on...
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This paper examines the CEO compensation gap between gender and the female CEOs’ risk preference for incentive …-averse tendency. Meanwhile, the literature suggests no significant difference in the CEO compensation gap between gender. Recently …. This study divided the sample into several periods to examine the significance level of CEO pay between gender. When …
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Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …
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-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …
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contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … of progesterone on competitiveness and our results therefore provide a partial biological explanation for gender …
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they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …
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