Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
students’ risk-taking preferences in economically important ways. To test this, our controlled experiment gave subjects an … with a certain payoff- and in which the sensitivity of observed risk choices to environmental factors could be explored … either coed or single sex schools, and more likely than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk …