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dc.contributor.authorBorghans, Lexen
dc.contributor.authorGolsteyn, Bart H. H.en
dc.contributor.authorHeckman, James Josephen
dc.contributor.authorMeijers, Huuben
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-03-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:55:49Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:55:49Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-2009021695en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35728-
dc.description.abstractThis paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders, can be accounted for by differences in personality traits and traits of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the introduction of ambiguity but men do. At greater levels of ambiguity, women have the same marginal distaste for increased ambiguity as men. Psychological variables account for some of the interpersonal variation in risk aversion. They explain none of the differences in ambiguity.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3985en
dc.subject.jelJ24en
dc.subject.jelD03en
dc.subject.jelD80en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordGenderen
dc.subject.keywordrisk aversionen
dc.subject.keywordambiguity aversionen
dc.subject.stwRisikopräferenzen
dc.subject.stwRisikoaversionen
dc.subject.stwGeschlechten
dc.subject.stwEntscheidung bei Unsicherheiten
dc.subject.stwPersönlichkeitspsychologieen
dc.subject.stwKognitionen
dc.subject.stwTesten
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.titleGender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn592897184en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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