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Stock investments for old-age : less return, more risk, and unexpected timing

Ulbricht, Dirk - 2013

Returns merely based on one purchasing price of an asset are uninformative for people regularly contributing to their old-age provision. Here, each purchase has an influence on the outcome. Still, they are commonly used in finance literature, giving an overly optimistic view of expected...

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Selectivity, market timing and the Morningstar star-rating system

Antypas, Antonios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2009

This paper evaluates the Morningstar mutual fund ranking system. We find that indeed higher Morningstar ratings are associated with higher returns on the portfolios including respectively five-, four-, three-, two- and one-star funds only (STAR5 to STAR1). We then perform an unconditional and...

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The family working time model : toward more gender equality in work and care

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2016

burden with respect to gainful employment and providing care. We propose a family working time model that incentivizes … fathers and – contrary to most conventional family policies – actively promotes the dual earner/dual carer paradigm. Combining … microsimulation and labor supply estimation, we empirically analyze the potential of the family working time model in the German …

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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …

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Gender-specific effects of unemployment on family formation : a cross-national perspective

Schmitt, Christian (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

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Labour market integration and the transition to parenthood : a comparison of Germany and the UK

Schmitt, Christian (contributor) - 2008

of family formation, a lengthy process of occupational integration tends to delay the transition to parenthood for both …

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Is monetary policy gender neutral? : evidence from the stock market

Grazzini, Caterina Forti; Kim, Chi Hyun - 2020

We use US household survey data from 2001-2017 to investigate whether monetary policy has heterogeneous effects on women's and men's financial portfolio decisions by analyzing their equity investment. On the one hand, monetary policy significantly affects the entry decisions of women, but not of...

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Risk attitudes and investment decisions across European countries : are women more conservative investors than men?

Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2009

This study questions the popular stereotype that women are more risk averse than men in their financial investment decisions. The analysis is based on micro-level data from large-scale surveys of private households in five European countries. In our analysis of investment decisions, we directly...

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Does gender affect investors‘ appetite for risk? : Evidence from peer-to-peer lending

Barasinska, Nataliya - 2011

This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend to fund less risky investment projects than males. To answer this question, I use real-life investment data collected at the largest German market for peer-to-peer lending....

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Firm investment and financial frictions

Baum, Christopher F. (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper we investigate the analytical and empirical linkages between firms' capital investment behavior and financial frictions arising from asymmetric information, proxied by firms' liquidity and degree of uncertainty. Measures of intrinsic and extrinsic uncertainty are derived from...

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