Gender and Risk Taking in the Classroom
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- Riener, Gerhard & Wagner, Valentin, 2017. "Shying away from demanding tasks? Experimental evidence on gender differences in answering multiple-choice questions," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 43-62.
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Keywords
Experimental Economics; Risk Aversion; Economics Education;JEL classification:
- A2 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics
- A20 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - General
- A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2012-11-11 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-DEM-2012-11-11 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2012-11-11 (Education)
- NEP-EXP-2012-11-11 (Experimental Economics)
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