Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria; … - 2021 - This version: 2.3.2021
-third of the financial literacy gender gap can be explained by women’s lower confidence levels. Both financial knowledge and …Women are less financially literate than men. It is unclear whether this gap reflects a lack of knowledge or, rather, a … lack of confidence. Our survey experiment shows that women tend to disproportionately respond “do not know” to questions …