“Narrow framing” is a widely documented behavioral bias that predicts, instead of evaluating all their risk components as a whole, people often evaluate risks in isolation, separately from other risks they are already facing. Using representative survey data from the China Household Finance...

Using unique survey data from the China Household Finance Survey, we estimate the extent of “narrow framing”, which is a widely documented behavioral bias, among Chinese households, using their portfolio choices. Conditional on stock market participation, we find that most Chinese households...

Using unique survey data from the China Household Finance Survey, we estimate the extent of “narrow framing”, which is a widely documented behavioral bias, among Chi- nese households, using their portfolio choices. Conditional on stock market participation, we find that most Chinese...