期刊
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
卷 68, 期 1, 页码 1-17出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2008.04.006
关键词
Risk aversion; Experiment; Gender; Stereotyping
类别
We develop and evaluate a simple gamble-choice task to measure attitudes toward risk. and apply this measure to examine differences in risk attitudes of male and female university Students. In addition, we examine stereotyping by asking whether a person's sex is read as a signal of risk preference. Subjects choose which of five 50/50 gambles they wish to play. The gambles include one sure thing: the remaining four increase (linearly) in expected payoff and risk. Each subject also is asked to guess which of the five gambles each of the other subjects chose, and is paid for correct guesses. The experiment is conducted under three different frames: an abstract frame where the two highest-payoff gambles carry the possibility of losses. an abstract frame with no losses. and an investment frame that mirrors the payoff structure of the former. We find that women are significantly more risk averse than men in all three settings, and predictions of both women and men tend to confirm this difference. While average guesses reflect the average difference in choices, only 27 percent of guesses are accurate, which is slightly higher than chance. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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