The effect of group members’ gender on individual and group risk-taking

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Kayaaslan, Hasan Mert

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We analyze whether the risk preference of an individual changes when s/he decides for a group in a risky situation and informed about group members' gender information or not. We confirm the literature and find that male and female decision-makers have different risk preferences when their decisions affect only themselves. In line with our prediction, the results show that when group members' gender is unknown, decisionmakers have similar risk preferences to their individual ones. Finally, we find that male participants are affected by the group member's gender information, independent of whether the group member is a male or a female. However, we do not observe such an effect on female decision-makers.

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social risk-taking, lottery choice, experiment, gender differences

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H. M. Kayaaslan, “The effect of group members’ gender on individual and group risk-taking,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.