than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might reflect social learning rather than … pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments …

This Paper examines how aversion to risk and aversion to intertemporal substitution determines the strength of the … large risks, we show that decreasing absolute risk aversion guarantees that the precautionary saving motive is stronger than … risk aversion, regardless of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution. Holding risk preferences fixed, the extent to …

. We decompose the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility ("uncertainty … monetary policy decreases risk aversion after about five months. Monetary authorities react to periods of high uncertainty by … through which monetary policy may affect risk aversion, e.g., through its effects on broad liquidity measures and credit. …

The preferred risk habitat hypothesis, introduced here, is that individual investors select stocks with volatilities … commensurate with their risk aversion; more risk-averse individuals pick lower-volatility stocks. The investors' portfolio … stocks are sold they are replaced by stocks of similar volatilities, and the more risk averse customers indeed hold less …

In this paper, we study the determinants of the value of informal risk sharing groups. In particular, we look at the … if individuals can deviate form risk sharing agreements in coalitions or not. We test empirically several predictable … size of risk sharing groups can be rejected or that only imperfect risk sharing is obtained within the village because of …

relationship between gender and poverty. These countries were chosen as they have, under the equal-sharing assumption, very … different gender distributions of poverty. …

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those …

There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female …

for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender …

, have lower preferences than men for risk and competition, and may be more sensitive to social cues. These gender … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …