Status, Marriage, and Managers' Attitudes To Risk

We thank Andy Abel, Malcolm Baker, Nick Barberis, Effi Benmelech, Terry Burnham, Alex Edmans, Simon Gervais, Itay Goldstein, Todd Gormley, Wayne Guay, Luigi Guiso, Erik Hurst, Michael Lemmon, Ulrike Malmendier, Gregor Matvos, David Musto, Terry Odean, Andy Postlewaite, Michael Roberts, Paola Sapienza, Jose Scheinkman, Antoinette Schoar, Amit Seru, Stephanie Sikes, Todd Sinai, Jeremy Stein, Luke Taylor, Alessandra Voena, and numerous seminar participants at the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), the University of Southern California (Marshall), the University of California - Berkeley (Haas), Yale Behavioral Science Conference, 2012 Conference on Power, Status, and Influence (PSI) at Northwestern (Kellogg), and 2013 AFA Meeting for useful comments. We gratefully acknowledge support from the Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research (in particular Terker Family Fellowship and Iwanowski Family Fellowship), Wharton Sports Business Initiative, Wharton Entrepreneurship and Family Business Research Centre at CERT, and from Cynthia and Bennett Golub. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• March 6, 2012