Earlier research had claimed that prenatal exposure to sexual hormones has an effect on brain development that, in turn, influences individuals' decision making routines later in life (see for a survey Manning, 2002). Research both in the hard sciences (e.g., Neurology and Physiology) and in the social sciences (e.g., Economics and Psychology) has increasingly focused on biological markers to improve our understanding of the biological basis of social behavior. As for the latter, we find that a high 2D:4D is not correlated with the frequency of subjects' risky choices. As for the former, we find that social preferences are significantly lower when 2D:4D is above the median value only for subjects with low cognitive ability. Our results confirm the recent literature that downplays the link between 2D:4D and many domains of economic interest, such as social and risk preferences. We study how the ratio between the length of the second and fourth digit (2D:4D) correlates with choices in social and risk preferences elicitation tasks by building a large dataset from five experimental projects with more than 800 subjects. 3Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS), Rome, Italy.2Department of Economics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.1Departamento de Fundamentos de Análisis Económico, Universidad de Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig/Sant Vicent del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain.Judit Alonso 1 Roberto Di Paolo 1 Giovanni Ponti 1,2,3 Marcello Sartarelli 1 *
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