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 …

In a large-scale laboratory experiment, we investigate gender differences in overconfidence and risk taking. Our … results show that (self-)selection and socialization can eliminate the gender difference in overconfidence, but they appear …

In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust …, less trustworthy and less competitive than males. At the same time we do not observe significant gender differences in … patience, time inconsistency and cooperation at the 5% significance level. We also show that these initial gender differences …