In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …

bubbles. We consider a setting where participants sorted according to their degree of risk aversion trade in experimental … asset markets. We show that risk sorting is able to explain bubbles partially: Markets with the most risk-tolerant traders … exhibit larger bubbles than markets with the most risk averse traders. In our study risk aversion does not correlate with …

the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss aversion, and empirically study the relation between income risk …-income population of Bogotá, characterized by limited financial education and subject to substantial income risk. In line with the … theoretical predictions, we find that an increase in income risk is associated with higher savings for loss-averse individuals …

aversion. An accompanying laboratory experiment confirms that an exogenous increase in income risk causally leads to this … empirically study the relation between income risk, experimentally elicited loss aversion, and precautionary savings. We do so … subject to substantial income risk. In line with the theoretical predictions, we find that an increase in income risk is …

We compare seven established risk elicitation methods and investigate how they robustly explain eleven kinds of risky … behavior with 760 individuals. Risk measures are positively correlated; however, their performance in explaining behavior is … heterogeneous and, therefore, difficult to assess ex ante. To close this knowledge gap, greater diversification across risk measures …

including future bias in addition to present bias. In particular, the experiment (1) runs a non-parametric test of time …