SSRN-Choices About Competition: Differences by Gender and Hormonal Fluctuations, and the Role of Relative Performance Feedback by David Wozniak, William Harbaugh, Ulrich Mayr

There is a fairly large disagreement on the degree of differences in investments and other financial decisions based on risk. Many of the earlier studies showing females are more risk averse and less competitive are being brought into question when newer studies control for income, or life expectancy, etc. Here is a similar one that does so by adding a feedback loop that helps to reduce