This paper reviews the literature on gender differences in economic experiments. In the
three main sections, we identify robust differences in risk preferences, social (other …

Underlying preferences are often considered to be persistent, and are important inputs into
economic models. We first conduct an extensive review of the disparate literature studying …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the results from experimental measures of risk
aversion for evidence of systematic differences in the behavior of men and women. In most …

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 …

We conduct a large-scale economics experiment paired with a survey to examine the
association between individual risk preference and health-related behaviors among adults …

We investigate risk preferences of a sample of hurricane Katrina evacuees shortly after they
were evacuated and transported to Houston, and another sample from the same population …

We examine the stability of risk preference within subjects by comparing measures obtained
from two elicitation methods, an economics experiment with real monetary rewards and a …

Prospect Theory (PT) is widely regarded as the most promising descriptive model for
decision making under uncertainty. Various tests have corroborated the validity of the …

This paper reports results from an economic experiment where respondents are asked to
make choices between risky outcomes for themselves and others. We investigate whether …

This paper presents the only study analyzing the decision to purchase wind coverage for
individuals whose standard homeowner's policy excludes wind, and one of very few …