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 …

This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its … power of the test and show that the magnitude of gender differences, although significant, is economically unimportant. We …

another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple … change consumption according to the suggestion of the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this result and … consumers ; field experiment ; laboratory experiment …

Gender differences in risk attitudes are frequently observed, although recent literature has shown that they are … experimentally whether the presence of a safe option among the set of alternatives explains why females are more risk averse than … males. We manipulate three widely used risk elicitation methods finding that the availability of a safe option causally …

proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an online experiment absent choice in which we measure subjective wellbeing …

claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test a … that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related … factors such as risk aversion, being an entrepreneur or a shareholder. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the survey measure …

- but not men - set reservation wages that are too low relative to theoretically optimal values given their risk preferences …

larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when we control for economic preferences and … this relation is driven by a link between internal economic locus of control and a lower perception of the risk of …