In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …

This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their …

This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …

results show that gender does not affect individual borrower's chances of funding success on this platform, ceteris paribus …. Hence, gender discrimination seems to be a platform-specific phenomenon rather than a common attribute of this innovative …

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …