when confronted with decisions involving risk. These differences in risk preferences, when combined with gender differences … financial markets. Recent evidence has challenged this consensus, however, finding gender differences in risk attitudes to be …

prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

subjects were more risk averse in the buying experiment than in the selling experiment, suggesting the endowment effect. In the … selling experiment, subjects were risk loving when there was a low win probability and risk averse with a high win probability …, whereas they were risk averse in the buying experiment. Using the prize money won during the experiment as a measure of wealth …

whether this type of behavior persists when risk comes into play. I devise an experiment which sheds light on the …

whether this type of behavior persists when risk comes into play. I devise an experiment which sheds light on the …

prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities … section for very small amounts. -- Risk attitude ; incentives ; decision ; experiment …