Salience, risky choices and gender

Economics Letters

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 517-520

  Booth, Alison ^a,b   Nolen, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive ability; Gender; J16; Probability weights; Risk aversion; Salience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864218190     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.06.046     Document Type: Article

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