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The importance of being confident; gender, career choice, and willingness to compete
Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 82-97
This study investigates the extent to which gender differences in choosing to enter competitive tournaments are due to … ability, this measure eliminates gender differences in winner-take-all tournaments and, when entered with risk measures …, eliminates differences in ranked compensation tournaments. When the sample is split by career choice, there are no gender …
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Gender, risk and stereotypes
Daruvala, Dinky - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 35 (2007) 3, pp. 265-283
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Chapter 4. Assessment and Estimation of Risk Preferences
Holt, Charles A.; Laury, Susan K. - In: Handbook of the economics of risk and uncertainty : volume 1, (pp. 135-201). 2014
menus. Applications involve using inferred risk preferences to document demographic effects, e.g. gender, and to explain the …
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Updating, self-confidence, and discrimination
Albrecht, Konstanze; von Essen, Emma; Parys, Juliane; … - In: European Economic Review 60 (2013) C, pp. 144-169
In this laboratory experiment, we show that people incorporate irrelevant group information when evaluating others. Individuals from groups that perform badly on average receive low evaluations, even when it is known that the individuals themselves perform well. This group-bias occurs both in a...
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Salience, risky choices and gender
Booth, Alison; Nolen, Patrick - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 2, pp. 517-520
Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...
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Decision Risks and Individual Development Accounts: An Alternative View
Khashadourian, Edmund - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 2, pp. 142-159
This article analyzes the impact of risk on decisions made by the poor within the context of the Individual Development Account (IDA) program. IDA is a matched savings program designed to help low-income households invest in appreciating assets. For these households, the risk involved with...
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Estimating ambiguity aversion in a portfolio choice experiment
Ahn, David S.; Choi, Syngjoo; Gale, Douglas; Kariv, Shachar - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 2, pp. 195-223
We report a portfolio-choice experiment that enables us to estimate parametric models of ambiguity aversion at the level of the individual subject. The assets are Arrow securities that correspond to three states of nature, where one state is risky with known probability and two states are...
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Risk aversion and other factors determine income redistribution preferences
Gärtner, Manja; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 17/18, pp. 151-156
The amount of redistribution people favor depends on socioeconomic factors and their views on fairness. This study, based on a representative survey conducted in Sweden, confirms earlier results: Higher incomes are correlated with wanting less redistribution, women are more in favor of...
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Measuring price risk aversion through indirect utility functions : a laboratory experiment
Zeytoon-Nejad, Ali - In: Games 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1-43
The present paper introduces a theoretical framework through which the degree of risk aversion with respect uncertain prices can be measured through the context of the indirect utility function (IUF) using a lab experiment. First, the paper introduces the main elements of the duality theory (DT)...
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Investments: Women Are More Cautious than Men because They Have Less Financial Resources at Their Disposal
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 1, pp. 1-4
result of gender-based investment attitudes. Women are likely to have cautious investment habits because - as a rule - they …
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