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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 - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661284
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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 - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128105
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Is the Willingness to Take Financial Risk a Sex-Linked Trait?: Evidence from National Surveys of Household Finance
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128883
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Is the willingness to take financial risk a sex-linked trait? Evidence from national surveys of household finance
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984745
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Would Lehman Sisters Have Done It Differently?: An Empirical Analysis of Gender Differences in Investment Behavior
Barasinska, Nataliya - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This study appraises the role of gender in the behavior of individuals who make risky investments. The analysis bases … studies, I find no evidence for gender differences. Males and females exhibit similar levels of risk propensity and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069142
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Would Lehman Sisters Have Done It Differently?: An Empirical Analysis of Gender Differences in Investment Behavior
Barasinska, Nataliya - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This study appraises the role of gender in the behavior of individuals who make risky investments. The analysis bases … studies, I find no evidence for gender differences. Males and females exhibit similar levels of risk propensity and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896116
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Room Effects
Castillo, Marco; Leo, Gregory; Petrie, Ragan - Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), … - 2013
We present clean evidence of a direct social context effect on behavior in a laboratory experiment: the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266049
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Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in … than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082546
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Forecasting Risk Attitudes: An Experimental Study Using Actual and Forecast Gamble Choices
grossman, philip j.; Eckel, Catherine C. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2008
We develop and evaluate a simple gamble-choice task to measure attitudes toward risk, and apply this measure to examine differences in risk attitudes of male and female university students. In addition, we examine stereotyping by asking whether a person's sex is read as a signal of risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010545632
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Not-So-Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking
Nelson, Julie A. - Economics Department, University of Massachusetts-Boston - 2013
In their article "Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking," Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy (2012) review a … indicate only that modest differences (at most) exist at aggregate levels, such as group means. The evidence in favor of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837322