Gender differences in social risk taking |
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| Institution: | 1. Dept. of Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany;2. Institute for Applied Microeconomics, University of Bonn, Germany;3. Dept. of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany;4. Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany;5. Dept. of Economics and Econometrics University of Johannesburg, South Africa |
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| Abstract: | Women in Western societies are typically more risk averse than men in individual risk taking decisions. In real life, however, risk taking decisions are usually made in a social context. So far, empirical evidence whether gender differences are also present in the social risk taking domain is missing. We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in social risk taking. We find that inequality aversion is the main driver for risk aversion in social risk taking. Disaggregating the data for males and females shows that this effect is mainly driven by strong inequality aversion of women. Moreover, by running the experiment with non-standard subjects from an egalitarian small-scale society, our results suggest that gender differences in social risk taking are culture-specific. |
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| Keywords: | Economic experiments Social risk taking Gender differences Cultural-comparative analysis D03 D81 C93 J15 J16 |
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