Gender differences in risk attitudes: Field experiments on the matrilineal Mosuo and the patriarchal Yi

Binglin Gong; Chun Lei Yang

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.010

Gender differences in risk attitudes: Field experiments on the matrilineal Mosuo and the patriarchal Yi

Binglin Gong^*
, Chun Lei Yang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Fudan University
Academia Sinica - Research Center for Humanities and Social Science

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Abstract

We conduct experiments on two different risk tasks with subjects from two neighboring ethnic groups, the matrilineal Mosuo and the patriarchal Yi in China. Women are more risk averse than men at both tasks within both ethnic groups. However, the gender gap is smaller in the Mosuo. Regressions show that socio-economic factors such as family size, family head, education, age, and income also have significant effects on subject's risk choices.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	59-65
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume	83
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.010
State	Published - Jun 2012
Externally published	Yes

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SDG 5 Gender Equality

Keywords

Field experiment
Gender difference
Matrilineal society
Patriarchal society
Risk attitude

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