hold diversified portfolios of financial assets. The analysis is based on household survey data from the German …

Numerous behavioral factors have been identified as having an impact on household stockholding decisions. Given there … offspring gender does influence household stock market participation. Specifically, I find that having only female offspring can … significantly increase the probability of stockholding. Given stockholding can have large effects on household wealth levels and …

household asset portfolios using Wave 6 of the HILDA Survey. Household assets are categorised as home and other property … household portfolios have very low levels of asset diversification and that the factors analysed exert a major impact …. Importantly, the behaviour observed in household portfolios appears to bear little relation to the central predictions of classic …

We study the effect of political corruption on household financial well-being using microdata from the United States … costs of corruption on household societal wealth, and predominantly by the non-pecuniary effect on households' trust and … perceptions of institutional quality. Our findings suggest that political corruption largely impedes household financial …

financial behavior. To date, personal cultural values have only been indirectly measured through religion and trust. But these … household financial decision-making. Our study shows that cultural values can be brought from a generalized national level to … the individual level in order to improve our understanding of household financial decision making …

household contract choice: the attributes of the bank that makes the loan should play no role. If households rely on banks …-specific supply characteristics will play a role in the household's choice above any role they play through relative prices. Testing …

Using micro household survey data from China, this study finds that women are less likely to participate in the stock … market than men. This gender pattern in market participation rates holds when we control for household features … study’s findings suggest the crucial role of gender and gender-related cultural norms in shaping household financial …