We design an experiment that sheds light on the asymmetry in how men and women
interpret noisy feedback about relative standing and how this gender difference can affect …

With the rise of experimental research in the social sciences, numerous methods to elicit and
classify people's risk attitudes in the laboratory have evolved. However, evidence suggests …

Experimental results from student and other non-representative convenience samples often
suggest that men, on average, are more risk taking and competitive than women. We …

Experimental literature has found that risk attitudes are not robust to different elicitation
techniques. However, most comparisons across elicitation methods involve different rewards …

Risky choices often involve a tradeoff between expected payoff and payoff variability.
Subjects in a simple experiment, however, exhibit more aversion to “downside risk”(with a …

Most economic decisions are embedded in a specific social context. In many such contexts,
individual choices are influenced by their observability due to underlying social norms and …

We present a theoretical model in which agents have imperfect self-knowledge about their
abilities and have to self-select into either a high-paying or a low-paying tournament. The …

During interpersonal interactions, individual perceptions and judgment are unavoidably
influenced by speech cues, such as vocal pitch. This paper experimentally examines the …

As financial markets grow increasingly accessible and diverse, understanding the interplay
between structural factors and individual behaviors has become more critical than ever. This …

Economists have devised various menus for using survey respondents' choices to infer risk
preferences. A typical task offers a choice between a safe option (payoffs close together) …