Are Women as Likely to Take Risks and Compete? Behavioural Findings from Central Vietnam
通过对越南农村500对夫妻的受控实验，发现女性比男性更厌恶风险，且无论成功概率如何，女性都更不愿选择竞争，这有助于理解女性在采用新技术、贷款或参与高回报经济活动时的犹豫。
Using controlled experiments to compare the risk attitude and willingness to compete of husbands and wives in 500 couples in rural Vietnam, we find that women are more risk averse than men and that, compared to men, women are less likely to choose to compete, irrespective of how likely they are to succeed. Relevant to development programmes concerned with lifting women out of poverty, our findings suggest that women may be more reluctant to adopt new technologies, take out loans, or engage in economic activities that offer higher expected returns, in order to avoid setups that require them to be more competitive or that have less predictable outcomes.