Gender, risk preferences and willingness to compete in a random sample of the Swedish population✰

@article{Boschini2019GenderRP,
  title={Gender, risk preferences and willingness to compete in a random sample of the Swedish population✰},
  author={Anne Boschini and Anna Dreber and Emma von Essen and Astri Muren and Eva Ranehill},
  journal={Journal of Socio-economics},
  year={2019},
  volume={83},
  pages={101467}
}
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