This paper reports the results of an experiment that brings together psychological measures of competence and … ambiguous lotteries in a financial decision context. The experiment can be viewed in two parts. The first part replicates an … used to explain elicited certainty equivalents in the second part of the experiment. Certainty equivalents were elicited …

students. While ability alone increases confidence and decreases overconfidence, the interaction effect of feminine gender and … ones, while the positive effect of ability on confidence is smaller for females. That being said, the negative gender gap … quartiles. Also, the positive gender gap in confidence for girls is smaller for well-performing students than under …