Author's abstract. This paper study decision-making under risk and decision-making over time made by couples. We … performed a joint experimental elicitation of risk and time preferences both for couples and for their individual members. We … used general behavioral models of decision under risk and over time and measured utility, probability weighting, and …

This study contributes to the public debate on gender quotas and the literature on gender and risk taking by analysing … how the level of risk taking within a group is influenced by its gender composition. In particular we look at the shift of … risk taking between group and individual decisions and analyse to which extent this shift depends on the gender composition …