Do women invest differently than men? We contribute to the answer of this question by analysing the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) of the German Bundesbank. This representative panel collects a wide variety of behavioural and financial variables in the area of household finance. We find that...

There is substantial variation in risk taking, with women typically taking less risk than men. In this talk I will go through some relevant studies on this topic, as well as discuss the relationship with stock market participation