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| Title: | | Risk attitudes and investment decisions across European countries: are women more conservative investors than men?  |
| Authors: | | Badunenko, Oleg Barasinska, Nataliya Schäfer, Dorothea |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion papers // German Institute for Economic Research 928 |
| Abstract: | | This study questions the popular stereotype that women are more risk averse than men in their financial investment decisions. The analysis is based on micro-level data from large-scale surveys of private households in five European countries. In our analysis of investment decisions, we directly account for individuals' self-perceived willingness to take financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are less likely to invest in risky financial assets. However, when the probability of investing is controlled for, males and females are found to allocate equal shares of their wealth to risky assets. |
| Subjects: | | Gender risk aversion financial behavior |
| JEL: | | G11 J16 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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