Forecasting the Risk Attitudes of Women and Men: An Experimental Test of the Strength of Gender Stereotypes

Oleksandr Lugovsky and Philip Grossman ()
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Philip Grossman: Department of Economics, St. Cloud State University

No 2008-07 Classification-C91, D8, J16, Working Papers from Saint Cloud State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper experimentally investigates the role of gender-based stereotypes in the forecasting of risk attitudes. Subjects predict the gamble choice of target subjects in one of three treatments: 1) Visual – the predictor can only observe the target; 2) Information – the predictor has information about the targets’ response to two statements from a risk-preference survey; and 3) Combined – the predictor both observes the targets and has the targets’ two responses to the risk-preference survey. Our results suggest that stereotypes play a considerable role in forming predictions about others’ risk attitudes and that these stereotypes persist even when more relevant information is available.

Keywords: Experiment; Gender; Risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-exp and nep-upt
Date: 2006-10, Revised 2007-10
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