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Department of Economics Working Papers,
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics
No 301: Gender differences in risky asset behavior: the importance of self-confidence and financial literacy
Andrej Cupák (), Pirmin Fessler () and Alyssa Schneebaum ()
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Andrej Cupák: Research Department, National Bank of Slovakia
Pirmin Fessler: Foreign Research Division, Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Alyssa Schneebaum: Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Abstract: Women are less likely than men to hold risky financial assets, a fact that has often been attributed to differences in risk aversion and, more recently, to differences in financial literacy and investor confidence. This paper studies the role of individuals’ confidence in their own financial literacy in explaining the gender gap in investment in risky assets, while controlling for actual financial literacy and a measure of risk aversion. It is the first paper to assess the role of confidence independent of actual financial knowledge for a large set of countries and it is the first to explore the role of confidence by using counterfactual decomposition techniques. Results from our analysis confirm recent findings of modern behavioral finance: confidence is a strong determinant of risky financial behavior and accounts for a large part of the gender gap.
Keywords: self-confidence, financial literacy, financial behavior, gender, decomposition
JEL-codes: D14; D91; I20; G11; G53 September 2020
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