Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in …

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 …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it …