A lottery choice task was conducted to examine the risk attitudes of 352 Ethiopian women who were members of 72 female workgroups in the spices processing business in Addis Ababa. The women were asked to make risk choices on their own, and the same choices together with the other members of their workgroup, as a group decision. Our study is different from earlier research in the field in that it focuses on poor women operating a business in a low-income patriarchal society. The data show younger and more educated women to be more risk-taking in their individual choices than older and less educated women. The group choices were more cautious than the (means of) the individual choices of the members, hence providing evidence of a cautious shift. Groups that were more risk-taking had better business performance in terms of capital gains, hired workers and income earned by the women.

中文翻译：

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埃塞俄比亚女性工作组中的团体与个人风险选择。

进行了一项抽签选择任务，以检查 352 名埃塞俄比亚妇女的风险态度，她们是亚的斯亚贝巴香料加工企业 72 个女性工作组的成员。女性被要求自己做出风险选择，并与工作组的其他成员一起做出相同的选择，作为集体决策。我们的研究不同于该领域早期的研究，因为它侧重于在低收入父权社会中经营企业的贫困妇女。数据显示，与年龄较大且受教育程度较低的女性相比，年轻且受教育程度较高的女性在个人选择上更愿意承担风险。群体选择比成员的个人选择（手段）更加谨慎，因此提供了谨慎转变的证据。更愿意承担风险的群体在资本收益方面的业务表现更好，