social context affected risk-taking behavior. Remotely, pairs take far fewer risks when the stakes are high than in the flesh …

coed girls. Moreover, we found that gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of … pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … are likely to modify students' risk-taking preferences in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a …

initiation of risky behavior by adolescent friends exhibit significant interaction effects. The likelihood that one friend …

difference between females and males when behaving under such conditions. Uncertainty is generally related to risk on the one … hand, and to ambiguity on the other. Coherently with these two dimensions, the paper investigates if risk-taking attitudes … and ambiguity aversion are related to gender. After organizing a cooperative of researchers from different scientific …

either coed or single sex schools, and more likely than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk … studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. -- Gender identity ; controlled experiment ; risk … innate preferences are modified by pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes. Single-sex environments are likely to modify …

initiation of risky behavior by adolescent friends exhibit significant interaction effects. The likelihood that one friend …

This paper investigates experimentally whether risk attitudes are stable across social contexts. In particular, it … show that risk attitude is strongly affected by social contexts: participants in the experiment seem to be relatively risk … seeking when they possess a relatively weaker position than the other party and risk averse when the opposite is true. Our …