Using a field experiment eliciting the risk preferences of 490 9th and 11th grade students from a variety of school … considered by economists (gender, ethnicity, height, and parental education) we also evaluate cognitive (proxied by math literacy … tall and nonwhites individuals are more risk tolerant. Next, the impact of school characteristics on the development of …

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 …

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 …