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Financial literacy : Thai middle class women do not lag behind
Grohmann, Antonia; Hübler, Olaf; Kouwenberg, Roy; … - 2016
This research studies the stylized fact of a "gender gap" in that women tend to have lower financial literacy than men. Our data which samples middle-class people from Bangkok does not show a gender gap. This result is not explained by men's low financial literacy, nor by women's high income and...
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Financial literacy and financial behavior : do women lag behind? ; conference paper
Grohmann, Antonia; Hübler, Olaf; Kouwenberg, Roy; … - 2014
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 regards to financial literacy nor regarding various kinds...
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SHE can't afford it and HE doesn't want it : the gender gap in the COVID-19 consumption response
Huber, Stefanie J. - 2022
This paper explores whether and why the pandemic differentially altered women and men's consumption behavior. After the 2020 wave of lockdown restrictions were lifted, women reduced consumption more than men. Data on self-reported reasons for consuming less reveals that gender differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013175577
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The betrayed generation? : intra-household transfers and retirement behavior in South Korea
Kim, Kyeongkuk; Lee, Sang-hyop; Halliday, Timothy - 2018
We consider the nexus of intra-household transfers, the sex composition of the sibship, and parental retirement … increasing their labor supply. Consistent with this, we show that parents with more adult sons delay their retirement. In … particular, an elderly parent with all sons has a retirement probability that is 7-10 percentage points lower than a comparable …
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The Gender Gap in 'Bitcoin Literacy'
Bannier, Christina E. - 2019
Using nationally representative US data, we show that women possess weaker knowledge regarding the characteristics of Bitcoin compared to men. Investigating the determinants driving this gap, we find that socio-demographics and personality traits explain only a small share of the gap. Adding...
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Gender differences in financial literacy among teenagers : c confidence bridge the gap?
Blaschke, Justus - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
This paper investigates the moderating effect of confidence on the gender gap in financial literacy based on a nationwide survey of German high school students. Two measures of confidence are applied while controlling for cognitive abilities and several independent variables. This study shows...
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Gender Retirement Gap
Garnick, Diane - 2017
Many people save for retirement through their employer, who in turn applies gender-neutral saving rates, investment … choices, and spending strategies in retirement. Intuitively this creates a sense of fairness, but this intuition masks the … reality that many women face. Lifetime earnings and spending in retirement are anything but average for women. Consequently …
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The gender division of labor and its effect on retirement security
Ghilarducci, Teresa - 2023
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Gender Aspects of Households' Saving Behavior in the Kyrgyz Republic
Muktarbek kyzy, Akylai - 2017
The research results of the gender aspects of the households' saving behavior in the Kyrgyz Republic are represented in this paper using the data of Life in Kyrgyzstan survey for 2013. (original text is in Russian)
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