Arbeitspapier
Salience, risky choices and gender
Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience affects young men and women differently, even after controlling for cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Men are significantly more likely than women to switch from a certain to a risky choice once the upside of winning is made salient, even though the expected value of the choice remains the same.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6400
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- Thema
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gender
salience
risk-aversion
probability weights
cognitive ability
Risikopräferenz
Kognition
Geschlecht
Test
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Booth, Alison L.
Nolen, Patrick J.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-201206146846
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Booth, Alison L.
- Nolen, Patrick J.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2012
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