This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing … of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the …

observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …

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 …

I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and … robust to school fixed effects, cannot be explained by broader cohort effects or general anti-social behaviors in male peer …

of other key variables, such as gender and educational attainment. …

and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically … reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …

and Japan to investigate whether these behaviors in middle and high school are affected by the gender composition of …Having leader positions at school, as well as participating in sports and clubs helps promoting valuable non cognitive … siblings. We find that having only sisters at age 15 increases substantially the probability of school leadership both for …