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 …

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 …

stock market, aiming to disentangle the different channels playing a role in this decision. Gender role asymmetry is … indicated by the country's rank in the gender equality index of the World Economic Forum. Using data from four national … household surveys, we find that in Italy - the country with highly asymmetric gender role prescriptions - women's risk …

market than men. This gender pattern in market participation rates holds when we control for household features …, characteristics of both spouses, and their interactions and relative decision-making power. We also show that the gender difference in … confirm the influence of cultural gender norms among older households. The gender difference in stock market participation is …