financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …

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 …

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 …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are … females are found to allocate equal shares of their wealth to risky assets. -- Gender ; risk aversion ; financial behavior …

This paper analyzes gender differences in the disposition effect in an experiment based on Weber and Camerer (1998 …

We study the effect of gender in a new financial behavior context: the choice of a mortgage. While adjustable rate …

market than men. This gender pattern in market participation rates holds when we control for household features …, characteristics of both spouses, and their interactions and relative decision-making power. We also show that the gender difference in … confirm the influence of cultural gender norms among older households. The gender difference in stock market participation is …

stock market, aiming to disentangle the different channels playing a role in this decision. Gender role asymmetry is … indicated by the country's rank in the gender equality index of the World Economic Forum. Using data from four national … household surveys, we find that in Italy - the country with highly asymmetric gender role prescriptions - women's risk …

This research challenges the stylized fact of a gender gap in financial literacy, i.e. the finding that women lag … behind men in this respect. Our data which samples middle-class people from Bangkok does not show a gender gap, neither in …