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Gender Match and the Gender Gap in Venture Capital Financing : Evidence from Shark Tank
Jetter, Michael; Stockley, Kieran - 2021
Although the gender gap in entrepreneurs' success rates to secure funding is staggering, we know little about its … comprehensive data of 4,893 interactions from the popular US television show Shark Tank, we test whether gender match with … with female (rather than male) entrepreneurs, while no systematic gender preferences emerge for male investors. This result …
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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment : The German Case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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Early Health, Risk Aversion and Stock Market Participation
Bockerman, Petri - 2019
To examine the relationship between early health status and financial decisions in adulthood, we link information on birth weight in 1966 from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort to data from the Finnish Central Securities Depository over the period of 1995-2010. We find that persons predisposed...
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Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households
Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2018
distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …
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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households : Evidence from Sweden
Hederos Eriksson, Karin - 2015
gender equal countries. Analyzing Swedish population register data, we do not find support for the norm that a man should …
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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
Andrienko, Yuri - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
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Gender Discrimination in the Allocation of Migrant Household Resources
Antman, Francisca - 2015
This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of …
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Gender, Financial Literacy and Pension Savings
Preston, Alison; Wright, Robert - 2022
relationship between the gender gap in financial literacy and the gender gap in pension savings amongst non-retired adults aged 18 … the gender gap in pension savings may be attributed to the gender gap in financial literacy. This finding holds even in …
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Psychological Momentum and Gender
Cohen-Zada, Danny - 2016
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage over the other in order to estimate the causal effect of psychological momentum on performance. We...
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Black, Sandra E. - 2015
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....
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