Men, Women and Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence

By Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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Who Chooses Annuities? An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Gender, Framing, and Defaults (2008, methodology): “To capture risk tolerance in the laboratory, we had participants complete the lottery choice experiment from Charles A. Holt and Susan K. Laury (2002).”
The “bomb” risk elicitation task (2013, neutral): “Performing a real effort task prior to the awarding of the 2.5 euro, as done by Eckel and Grossman (2008a), would probably have strengthened the results, but we wanted to reduce to a minimum the modifications compared to the Baseline treatment.”
Gender and Competition (2011, background): “…by how much women are more risk averse than men [for summaries on gender differences in risk aversion in the experimental economics literature, see Eckel & Grossman (2008) and Croson & Gneezy (2009), who conclude that women exhibit greater risk aversion; Byrnes et al. (1999) present a…”
Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector (2013, background): “The risk literature suggests 20 that women and older individuals often tend to be more risk averse (Eckel and Grossman 2008).”
O Sole Mio An Experimental Analysis of Weather and Risk Attitudes (2013, background): “…studies have already found to have a potential impact on individuals’ risk attitudes (see for example Benjamin et al., 2010, Dohmen et al., 2011, Eckel and Grossman, 2007, Guiso and Paiella, 2008, Hibbert et al., 2008, Hillary and Hui, 2011, Renneboog and Spaenjers, 2011, and Shu et al., 2010).”
How Costly Is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness (2013, neutral): “Quotas have recently been used throughout Europe to improve the representation of women in both the corporate and political arenas; see Fréchette et al. (2008) and Jones (2004). For a debate on quotas, see also Fryer and Loury (2005). Our quota study was initially reported in Niederle et al. (2008).”
The Impact of CFO Gender on Bank Loan Contracting (2013, neutral): “For a survey of gender difference in risk attitude in the economic literature, see the study by Eckel and Grossman (2004).”
Common components of risk and uncertainty attitudes across contexts and domains: evidence from 30 countries (2015, background): “Gender effects are commonly found for risk preferences, with women generally more risk averse than men (Croson & Gneezy, 2009; Eckel & Grossman, 2008).”
Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia (2020, background): “…home, and our work is thus related to a growing literature on the effects of gender identity and norms on economic outcomes (see Akerlof and Kranton 2000; Fernández, Fogli, and Olivetti 2004; Fernández 2007; Eckel and Grossman 2008; Fernández and Fogli 2009; Jensen and Oster 2009; Dohmen et al.”
The Effects of Physical Activity on Social Interactions: The Case of Trust and Trustworthiness (2019, background): “See, for example, Charness and Gneezy (2012); however, results may depend on meth- odologies and experiment designs (see Buchan et al., 2008; Croson & Gneezy, 2009; or Eckel & Grossman, 2008).”
Equal but Inequitable: Who Benefits from Gender-Neutral Tenure Clock Stopping Policies? (2016, neutral): “[8] Eckel, Catherine C.”
Trust: An Integrative Review from a Person–Situation Perspective (2015, background): “…levels of trait anxiety among women (Costa, Terracciano, & McCrae, 2001; Feingold, 1994)—and the correspondingly elevated levels of risk aversion (Eckel & Grossman, 2008), loss aversion (e.g., Brooks & Zank, 2005; Rau, 2014; Schmidt & Traub, 2002), and Emotionality (Moshagen, Hilbig, & Zettler,…”