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 …

strong evidence for gender-specific norms in risk taking. While these explain part of the existing gender gap in risk taking …

The present paper contributes to the controversy regarding gender differences in risk taking by investigating the … correlation of risks play an important role in the discussion of gender differences in risk taking. …