We design an experiment to test the hypothesis that, in violation of Bayes Rule, some people respond more forcefully to … information, and control for risk attitude. We find that the strength-weight bias affects expectations, but that its magnitude is … incentive compatibility and controls for risk attitude considerably affect inferences on errors in expectations. …

hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test …We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more … this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a …

This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey … take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to parental education and height. We test … the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a representative …

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … rather than inherent gender traits. -- gender ; risk preferences ; single-sex groups ; cognitive ability …

explaining heterogeneity in important life outcomes and behavior. -- risk preference ; time preference ; social preferences …

foods. In a within-subjects longitudinal experiment with 697 low-income Chinese high school students we find strong present …

studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the …

about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate … located at the bottom of the income distribution, where risk aversion cannot play any role. …

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing … of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the … as men. Psychological variables account for some of the interpersonal variation in risk aversion. They explain none of …

hot hand fallacy and the conditions under which it may fail. In a pre-registered laboratory experiment (N=750), we showed …