Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences

Booth, Alison; Katic, Pamela

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Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences

Date

2013

Authors

Booth, Alison

Katic, Pamela

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

In this study, we utilise data from a unique new birth-cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university entrance at