We use data from the game Show "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" and examine gender differences in decision making under uncertainty. It turns out that women and men differ in the use of decision criteria even after controlling for socio-economic variables

In order to analyse whether women and men differ in their decision making under risk and uncertainty, we use data from the game show 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'. It turns out that i) there are gender differences in choosing a lottery or a certain value only for “largestakes” lotteries,...

It has recently been claimed that women's social preferences are easier to manipulate than men's. We tested for gender differences in responsiveness to a homo economicus prime in a gift-exchange experiment with 113 participants. We observed gender differences in the direction of...