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 …

discrimination began to be eroded. These factors, together with a series of supply-side changes, meant that women were more easily … able to shift into investing in the skills in which labour demand was increasing. By 1987, Australian women were more …

lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

This paper reports the results of the Royal Economic Society Women's Committee 1998 survey on the gender balance in UK … lecturers, 28% of fixed term lecturers, and 33% of PhD/research students. The main growth in female representation since 1996 … has been in fixed term lectureships and in PhD/research students (a 5 percentage point increase for each). We suggest …