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The impact of sex ratios before marriage on household saving in two Asian countries : the competitive saving motive revisited

Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2016

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds...

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Household bargaining, pension contributions and retirement expectations : evidence from the German Panel on Household Finances

Fernandes, Inês; Schmidt, Tobias - 2021

In this paper, we study the relationship between intrahousehold bargaining styles, bar-gaining power and individual pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household Finances (PHF) survey. The paper builds on a theoretical...

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The competitive saving motive : concept, evidence, and implications

Wei, Shang-jin; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2015

imbalances tend to correspond with higher savings rates; (ii) household-level evidence suggest that: (a) families with unmarried … sons in rural regions with more skewed sex ratios tend to have higher savings rates, while savings rates of families with … unmarried daughters appear uncorrelated with gender imbalances; and (b) savings rates of families in cities tend to rise with …

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Show what you risk - norms for risk taking

Grimm, Stefan - 2018

Most economic decisions are embedded in a specific social context. In many such contexts, individual choices are influenced by their observability due to underlying social norms and social image concerns. This study investigates the impact of choices being observed, compared to anonymity of...

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Are women in science less ambitious than men? : experimental evidence on the role of gender and STEM in promotion applications

Süer, Müge - 2023

The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits can be found in supply-side behavioral differences in promotion applications. In this study, using a controlled lab experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study,...

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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions

Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...

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Do women receive worse financial advice? : an audit study in Hong Kong, China

Bhattacharya, Utpal; Kumar, Amit; Visaria, Sujata; … - 2023

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 receive advice to buy only individual or only local...

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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...

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The dynamics of the gender gap at retirement in Italy : evidence from SHARE

Abatemarco, Antonio; Russolillo, Maria - 2021

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Risk attitude and capital market participation : is there a gender investment gap in Germany?

Fey, Jan-Christian; Lerbs, Oliver; Schmidt, Carolin; … - 2020

Do women invest differently than men? We contribute to the answer of this question by analysing the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) of the German Bundesbank. This representative panel collects a wide variety of behavioural and financial variables in the area of household finance. We find that...

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