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 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 …

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 …

results show that gender does not affect individual borrower's chances of funding success on this platform, ceteris paribus …. Hence, gender discrimination seems to be a platform-specific phenomenon rather than a common attribute of this innovative …

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …