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affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …
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norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …
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the upside of winning is made salient, even though the expected value of the choice remains the same. -- gender ; salience …
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observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. -- gender ; risk preferences ; single-sex groups ; cognitive ability …
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innate preferences are modified by pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes. Single-sex environments are likely to modify … either coed or single sex schools, and more likely than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk …-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the experimental group, with girls being more likely to choose risky outcomes when …
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individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for each race. In this paper we use a sample of over 140 … mixed-gender races than in all-women races, whereas men racer's time is faster in mixed-gender races than men-only races. In … mixed-gender races, male racers are found to be more 'aggressive' - as proxied by lane-changing - in spite of the risk of …
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