Are Women as Likely to Take Risks and Compete? Behavioural Findings from Central Vietnam

Diana Fletschner, C. Leigh Anderson and Alison Cullen

Journal of Development Studies, 2010, vol. 46, issue 8, 1459-1479

Abstract: Using controlled experiments to compare the risk attitude and willingness to compete of husbands and wives in 500 couples in rural Vietnam, we find that women are more risk averse than men and that, compared to men, women are less likely to choose to compete, irrespective of how likely they are to succeed. Relevant to development programmes concerned with lifting women out of poverty, our findings suggest that women may be more reluctant to adopt new technologies, take out loans, or engage in economic activities that offer higher expected returns, in order to avoid setups that require them to be more competitive or that have less predictable outcomes.

Date: 2010
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