Gender differences in risk attitudes: Field experiments on the matrilineal Mosuo and the patriarchal Yi

Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking

“…Only in one experiment in reported in the table there is no gender difference in risk taking. Note that Gong and Yang (2011) find that males are less risk averse than females in both matrilineal and patrilineal societies.…”

“…5 These studies are Langer and Weber (2004), Haigh andList (2005), Fellner andSutter (2004), Genicot (2009), Bellemare et al (2005), Dreber and Hoffman (2007), and Gneezy et al (2009), Ertac and Gurdal (2011), and Gong and Yang (2011.…”

A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

“…Males invest more than females in most of the experiments analysed, and such a difference is usually about 10 − 15% of the initial endowment (Charness and Genicot, 2009;Charness andGneezy, 2004, 2010;Dreber and Hoffman, 2007;Dreber et al, 2010;Ertac and Gurdal, 2012;Fellner and Sutter, 2009;Gong and Yang, 2012;Langer and Weber, 2004). Significant differences, but lower than 10% in size, appear in Haigh and List (2005), Bellemare et al (2005), and Crosetto and Filippin (2013b), while Gneezy et al (2009) is the only contribution in which a gender gap does not appear.…”

Gender at work: Incentives and self-sorting

“…5 Furthermore the authors observe that "the composition of the team has no significant effect on the performance of each gender for a given incentive scheme" 6 . In matrilineal societies women do not shy away from competition and show behaviours in line with males' in patriarchal societies (Gneezy et al, 2009 andGong andYang, 2012) Moreover women tend to be loss-averse (Brooks and Zank, 2005).…”