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Men, Women and Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence
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This article is published in Research Papers in Economics.The article was published on 2008-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 561 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Risk aversion (psychology).read more
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Gender Differences in Preferences
Rachel Croson,Uri Gneezy +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the literature on gender differences in economic experiments and identified robust differences in risk preferences, social (other-regarding) preferences, and competitive preferences, speculating on the source of these differences and their implications.
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Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences
TL;DR: The authors found that gender, age, height, and parental background have an economically significant impact on willingness to take risks, and the question about risk taking in general generates the best all-round predictor of risky behavior.
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Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking
Gary Charness,Uri Gneezy +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that women invest less and appear to be more financially risk averse than men, while men are more willing to take financial risks than women, and that women are more likely to buy stocks than men.
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The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
TL;DR: The authors explored the interface between personality psychology and economics and examined the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle, and developed simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology.
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Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Does Gender Matter?
Renee B. Adams,Patricia Funk +1 more
TL;DR: Barber et al. as mentioned in this paper found that female and male directors differ systematically in their core values and risk attitudes, but in ways that differ from gender differences in the general population.