Financial literacy and financial behavior: Do women lag behind?

Konferenzbeitrag

This research challenges the stylized fact of a gender gap in financial literacy, i.e. the finding that women lag behind men in this respect. Our data which samples middle-class people from Bangkok does not show a gender gap, neither in regards to financial literacy nor regarding various kinds of informed financial decision making. This result is not explained by men s low financial literacy. It may be partially explained by high income of our target group and it seems likely to be influenced by Thailand s cultural background, such as the low degree of masculinity.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014: Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik - Session: Risk and Ambiguity II ; No. E06-V1

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Saving; Personal Finance ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Menkhoff, Lukas ; Grohmann, Antonia ; Hübler, Olaf ; Kouwenberg, Roy
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel und Hamburg
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/100415
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET