menus. Applications involve using inferred risk preferences to document demographic effects, e.g. gender, and to explain the …

We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences … matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender differences in actual risk preferences, but evidence for culture …

. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. …

. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …

personality traits. -- gender ; group decision-making ; risk ; leadership ; experiments …

Gender-specific patterns of self-selection into competitive and cooperative environments may have multiple reasons. One … comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … be gender neutral. After controlling for differences in performance, risk attitudes, and overconfidence, we find that …