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Gender differences in risk aversion: do single-sex environments affect their development?
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, all male, and coeducational. They...