We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA …) basketball teams. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on the team's risk-taking, a finding that … male head coach are 5 percentage points more likely to take risk than women's teams with a female head coach. This gap is …

Crime risk perception is known to be an important determinant of individuals' well being. Therefore, it is crucial … citizenship crime risk perception. In this set up, the aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants (both individual and … neighborhood) of citizens' crime risk perception for the City of Barcelona (Spain) by means of a multilevel ordered logit model …

nature. The existence of such state-dependent indivisible consumption opportunities influences a person's risk attitudes. In … general, people are not risk averse anymore even if utility from divisible consumption is concave. I propose a definition of … same reasons that rule out risk aversion turn out to be the basis of a desire to insure.This calls into question the …