The financial risk tolerance of married couples was examined in order to determine if assertiveness impacted their … and the Couples' Risk Tolerance Questionnaire. Although asset ownership and the wife's cohort affected the couple …'s assertiveness, assertiveness itself did not notably impact their combined financial or portfolio risk tolerance. However, wife …

standing in the marriage market and that they care about their standing in that market more than married men do, we find that a … stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … of divorce and, hence, on the likelihood of re-entry into the marriage market: married men in environments that are more …

standing in the marriage market and that they care about their standing in that market more than married men do, we find that a … stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … of divorce and, hence, on the likelihood of re-entry into the marriage market: married men in environments that are more …

standing in the marriage market and that they care about their standing in that market more than married men do, we find that a … stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … of divorce and, hence, on the likelihood of re-entry into the marriage market: married men in environments that are more …

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large … adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have the same risk tolerance as adolescents from non-separated families …. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large … adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have the same risk tolerance as adolescents from non-separated families …. Moreover, for both trust and risk, we find that separation attenuates the transmission of preferences from father to child …

marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. Controlling … attributed to the gradual erosion of the perception of marriage as a sort of safe asset. Our results therefore suggest that the … controlling for differential risk attitudes. Our empirical investigation is based on a dataset drawn from the 1989-2006 Bank of …