“…To our knowledge, the effect of social context on risk taking has not previously been studied, except for Booth and Nolen (2012b), who study adolescent girls and report that adolescent girls take more risks in lottery tasks when they are randomly assigned to a group of girls or when they attend all-girl schools. 6 However, unlike findings for adults, the gender gap is not robust to gender-neutral (Samak, 2013) or 'girly' tasks (Dreber et al, 2011;C ardenas et al, 2012;Khachatryan et al, 2015) or to cultural contexts (Booth and Nolen, 2012b;Andersen et al, 2013). 6 However, unlike findings for adults, the gender gap is not robust to gender-neutral (Samak, 2013) or 'girly' tasks (Dreber et al, 2011;C ardenas et al, 2012;Khachatryan et al, 2015) or to cultural contexts (Booth and Nolen, 2012b;Andersen et al, 2013).…”