Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 35 (2011) 11, pp. 2902-2915
We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investments by testing the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset and that this attribute may change over time. We show that married individuals have a higher propensity to invest...