Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?
@article{Booth2009GenderDI, title={Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?}, author={Alison Booth and Patrick James Nolen}, journal={Wiley-Blackwell: Economic Journal}, year={2009} }
Women and men may differ in their propensity to choose a risky outcome because of innate preferences or because pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking preferences in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment in which subjects were given an opportunity to choose a risky outcome - a real-stakes gamble with a higher expected…
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