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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

households and lower investment by firms, and hence leads to lower aggregate investment and growth. This paper argues that … although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …

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 …