thereon, using the 2017 data wave of the ECB's Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for German single households …. Controlling for selected socio-economic variables, we find that women have significantly less holdings in risky assets. This … demographic change, poverty in old age disproportionally affects women. Given these developments, private investment is becoming …

different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has largely been ignored. Are there positive spillovers from gender … the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the …

We investigate whether lack of familiarity may contribute to an explanation of the gender gap in stock market … participation and risk taking. We use ads in widely read women magazines to select companies that we assume to be more familiar to … women than to men, and construct a “pink” portfolio. We construct a “blue” portfolio by selecting stocks from the AEX index …

and violence, and the experience of women of color. Part 4 covers gender behavioral differences. Part 5 presents studies …This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is … grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various …

This paper examines gender differences in perceptions of the fairness of one's own pay. Theoretically, we draw on two … so far separate strands of literature, on women's alleged greater tolerance for lower wages ("contented female worker … previous studies by not simply assessing whether women are as likely as men to perceive their pay as unfair. Instead, we use an …

experiment we let subjects choose how often they want to play a risky skill game. We find that women play only half as many … rounds in risky skill games if the influence of chance is large. There is no gender difference if the influence of chance is …

that in households where women participate in children's education decisions and where women are aware of gender equality … of women's empowerment and to understanding of the mechanisms to achieve gender equality in education. …In this paper, we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children's education and allocation …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century …

We model voters' gender bias as a prejudice on women's competence coming from a distorted prior. We analyse the effect … choose to seek re-election more often. We also show that if parties endogenously select candidates, the effect of gender bias …