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men. Once risk attitude is controlled for, this effect shrinks to only 2.6 percent. We find no difference when single … participation is mainly explained by different risk attitudes and monetary endowments, but women would participate even less in the … capital market if they reacted as sensitively to risk aversion as their male counterparts. Lastly, given participation in the …
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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 …
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strong evidence for gender-specific norms in risk taking. While these explain part of the existing gender gap in risk taking … choices being observed, compared to anonymity of choices, on risk taking in a laboratory experiment. I relate participants …' investments in a risky asset directly to social norms for risk taking that are elicited in an incentivized procedure. I find that …
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level of risk tolerance is scarce and presents divergent results. Utilizing both differential prediction models and logit … models on a sample of 391 individuals in Portugal, this study demonstrates that respondents' gender play a crucial role in … this predictive ability. Men tend to overestimate their level of risk tolerance, while women tend to believe they are less …
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provides a clean test of the presence of an outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. Exploiting a large data …There is a strong consensus in the experimental literature according to which women are more risk averse than men …. However, new evidence reveals that only a tiny fraction of the replications of the Holt and Laury (2002) risk elicitation task …
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