pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … controlled experiment in which subjects were given an opportunity to choose a risky outcome - a real-stakes gamble with a higher … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in …

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 … students' risk-taking preferences in economically important ways. To test this, our controlled experiment gave subjects an …

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … 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 …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

reduction in stereotype threat for females and are not due to a potential tracking effect. -- single-sex ; education ; gender … ; experiment …