Attitudes Towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap

This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes towards economic risk, it shows that females are much more risk averse than males. It then extends this r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Le, Anh, Miller, Paul, Slutske, W., Martin, N.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier BV * North-Holland 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14128