A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Filippin, Antonio; Crosetto, Paolo

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“…She finds that some studies report higher average female risk taking and others where the gender difference lacks statistical significance. This is also the conclusion obtained by Filippin and Crosetto [16]. Charness and Gneezy [17] gather results from ten experiments similar to our baseline treatment (T1) and conclude that, on average, males tend to take higher risks than females.…”

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“…By contrast, we do not find any significant gender difference in how individuals react to the introduction of ambiguity. In this respect, our results are much in line with those that find significant gender differences with respect to specific experimental conditions -take, for instance, the availability of a safe option, as in Filippin and Crosetto [16]- rather than a gender effect which is independent of environmental conditions.…”

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Myopic Loss Aversion under Ambiguity and Gender Effects

2016

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Experimental evidence suggests that the frequency with which individuals get feedback information on their investments has an effect on their risk-taking behavior. In particular, when they are given information sufficiently often, they take less risks compared with a situation in which they are informed less frequently. We find that this result still holds when subjects do not know the probabilities of the lotteries they are betting upon. We also detect significant gender effects, in that the frequency with which information is disclosed mostly affects male betting behavior, and that males become more risk-seeking after experiencing a loss.

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Myopic Loss Aversion under Ambiguity and Gender Effects

2016

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“…Note that evidence on the difference between male and female risk taking in the laboratory is currently disputed (see, for instance, Filippin and Crosetto, ).…”

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Experimental and Self‐reported Measures of Risk Taking and Digit Ratio (2d:4d): Evidence From a Large, Systematic Study

Brañas–Garza

Galizzi

Nieboer

2018

Int Economic Review

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We systematically investigate the links between the digit ratio (2D:4D)—a biomarker for prenatal testosterone exposure—and two measures of individual risk taking: (i) risk preferences (RP) over lotteries with real monetary incentives and (ii) self‐reported risk attitude (RA). We find that both the right‐hand and the left‐hand digit ratio are significantly associated with RP: Subjects with lower digit ratios tend to choose riskier lotteries. Neither digit ratio, however, is associated with self‐reported RA.

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“…This result is rather surprising given the gender literature in experimental contexts. First, gender differences in risk preferences are found in some risk elicitation tasks but not all, and not in the BRET, see Filippin and Crosetto (). Second, when differences emerge they have the opposite sign, because females take less risks than males, not more (Croson and Gneezy ; Charness and Gneezy ).…”

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“… For instance, the fraction of risk averse subjects in the data set of Holt and Laury replications presented by Filippin and Crosetto () is above 70%.…”

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The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior

Crosetto¹,

Filippin

2017

Southern Economic Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACTThe Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior * It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the choices of others are not even presented to the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the "Click" version of the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task, in which subjects can infer the behavior of others only from the mass of clicks heard. This signal is payoff-irrelevant and largely uninformative about the actual choices of the other participants. Moreover, it is never mentioned in the instructions and therefore it must be spontaneously (and possibly unconsciously) perceived in order to be used. We control the exposure of subjects to clicks by implementing treatments with and without earmuffs. Moreover, we test whether the introduction of a minimal form of commonality, i.e., facing a common rather than individual resolution of uncertainty, makes conformism more likely to emerge. We find strong evidence of conformist behavior even in such an adverse environment. Simply hearing the others clicking affects subjects' behavior. Introducing a common random draw results in a further dramatic shift of the average choices, in particular by women. JEL Classification:C81, C91, D81

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A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Cited by 90 publications

References 117 publications

Myopic Loss Aversion under Ambiguity and Gender Effects

Myopic Loss Aversion under Ambiguity and Gender Effects

Experimental and Self‐reported Measures of Risk Taking and Digit Ratio (2d:4d): Evidence From a Large, Systematic Study

The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior

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