Are highly intelligent people less risk averse? Over the last two decades scholars have
argued the existence of a negative relationship between cognitive ability and risk aversion …

The lower female competitiveness often found in economic experiments presents a puzzle. If
accumulating wealth and reaching high status affords women essential benefits for …

In this chapter, I consider the benefits of viewing history through an evolutionary lens. In
recent decades, a field of research has emerged, which builds on foundations from …

Using data from the 2015 China Household Financial Survey (CHFS) this paper examines
the effect of culture on the gender gap in financial literacy. We exploit geographical …

We investigate how culture affects gender differences in willingness to compete in a large
pre-registered experiment using an epidemiological approach. Our sample of 1,943 …

Can policy change competitive preferences? This study uses controlled laboratory settings
to compare the gender gap in competitive inclination in ethnic groups exposed and …

This paper examines how communist propaganda affects gender norms and behavior in
China. Improving women's status and promoting gender equality were significant themes of …

We investigate the role played by the social environment in the development of gender
differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we find that the gender gap …

This paper examines how gender differences in behavioural preferences affect the gender
wage gap in Vietnam. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to measure preferences for …

The article studies the long-term impact of corruption on trust toward institutions. Previous
studies have demonstrated that exposure to corruption may lower institutional trust over the …