published articles from the economics literature on gender and risk aversion. The results demonstrate that the supposedly â … economic researchers, ourselves? This article explores the consequences of stereotyping and confirmation bias using a sample of …€œrobust†claim that “women are more risk averse than men†is far less empirically supported than has been claimed. The questions …

published articles from the economics literature on gender and risk aversion. The results demonstrate that the supposedly â … economic researchers, ourselves? This article explores the consequences of stereotyping and confirmation bias using a sample of …€œrobust†claim that “women are more risk averse than men†is far less empirically supported than has been claimed. The questions …

In their article "Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking", Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy (2012) review a … are more risk averse than males. This study replicates and extends their article, demonstrating that its methods are … group means. The evidence in favor of gender difference is thus considerably less strong than claimed. This analysis has …

differences in risk attitudes of male and female university students. In addition, we examine stereotyping by asking whether a …We develop and evaluate a simple gamble-choice task to measure attitudes toward risk, and apply this measure to examine … person's sex is read as a signal of risk preference. Subjects choose which of five 50/50 gambles they wish to play. The …

ability, this measure eliminates gender differences in winner-take-all tournaments and, when entered with risk measures …This study investigates the extent to which gender differences in choosing to enter competitive tournaments are due to …, eliminates differences in ranked compensation tournaments. When the sample is split by career choice, there are no gender …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were …

This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … and can be partly explained by experience. There are no substantial gender differences on the intensive margin of …