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 …

This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a …

There is a large literature estimating Arrow-Pratt coefficients of absolute and relative risk aversion. A striking … equating these to risk aversion measures defined in a mean-variance framework. This paper shows that while the legitimacy of … the mean-variance approach may hold under general conditions the additional assumptions invoked when estimating the risk …

candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …

stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …

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 …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …-subject variance is substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on risk aversion, sorting is …