| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP7214
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| DP7214 Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys? |
| Alison Booth; Patrick Nolen
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| 发表日期 | 2009-03-08
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| 出版年 | 2009
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Women and men may differ in their propensity to choose a risky outcome because of innate preferences or because 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 controlled experiment in which subjects were given an opportunity to choose a risky outcome - a real-stakes gamble with a higher expected monetary value than the alternative outcome with a certain payoff - and in which the sensitivity of observed risk choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are indeed sensitive to whether the girl attends a single-sex or coed school. Girls from single-sex schools are as likely to choose the real-stakes gamble as much as boys from either coed or single sex schools, and more likely than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the experimental group, with girls being more likely to choose risky outcomes when assigned to all-girl groups. This suggests that observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
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| 关键词 | Coeducation
Controlled experiment
Gender
Identity
Risk attitudes
Risk aversion
Single-sex schooling
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp7214
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/536049
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Alison Booth,Patrick Nolen. DP7214 Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?. 2009.
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