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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP8690 |
DP8690 Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development? | |
Alison Booth; Patrick Nolen; Lina Cardona Sosa | |
发表日期 | 2011-12-01 |
出版年 | 2011 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students were randomly assigned to classes of three types: all female, all male, and coeducational. They were not allowed to change group subsequently. We found that women are less likely to make risky choices than men at both dates. However, after eight weeks in a single-sex environment, women were significantly more likely to choose the lottery than their counterparts in coeducational groups. These results are robust to the inclusion of controls for IQ and for personality type, as well as to a number of sensitivity tests. Our findings suggest that observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. |
主题 | Labour Economics |
关键词 | Gender Risk preferences Single-sex groups Cognitive ability |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8690 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537527 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alison Booth,Patrick Nolen,Lina Cardona Sosa. DP8690 Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?. 2011. |
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