Using data for about 50,000 actual household investment accounts, we document that financial advice reduced investors …

We arranged for trained undercover men and women to pose as potential clients and visit all 65 local financial advisory … firms in Hong Kong, China. At financial planning firms, but not at securities firms, women were more likely than men to …

decrease gender inequalities and improve women's financial literacy, agency and empowerment. Accordingly, in this paper, we …Understanding why women are less financially literate than men is crucial for developing effective policies that … questions covering the three domains mentioned above. We find that there are statistically significant gender differences in …

explained by gender identity norms, which constrain women's influence over intra-household financial decision making. A …Using microdata from U.S. household surveys, I document that families with a financially sophisticated husband are more … the roles of intra-household bargaining and traditional norms in shaping household financial decisions …

We arranged for trained undercover men and women to pose as potential clients and visit all 65 local financial advisory … firms in Hong Kong, China. At financial planning firms, but not at securities firms, women were more likely than men to …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …