confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …-parametric and parametric methods. To overcome the problem mentioned above we concentrate on women with relatively long earnings …

This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A …. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that market women invest a considerable amount of time in maintaining … high transaction costs and prevents market women from growing out of poverty in the long term. …

This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …This study questions the popular stereotype that women are more risk averse than men in their financial investment …

This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their …

This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …This study questions the popular stereotype that women are more risk averse than men in their financial investment …

document that gender differences in schooling and educational mobility, found among older-aged individuals, disappeared in the …

country's gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …