Women are less financially literate than men. It is unclear whether this gap reflects a lack of
knowledge or, rather, a lack of confidence. Our survey experiment shows that women tend to …

As financial advice migrates online,“finfluencers” are democratizing access to financial
knowledge, challenging the historically male-dominated advisory landscape. This mixed …

Women are less financially literate than men, and it has been difficult to determine whether
this gap reflects a lack of knowledge or, rather, a lack of confidence. To address this …

We show that exposure to anti-capitalist ideology can exert a lasting influence on attitudes
towards capital markets and stock-market participation. Utilizing novel survey, bank, and …

Until the 1970s, US mortgage lenders commonly discounted half of the wife's income in
couples' joint mortgage applications. This changed with the introduction of antidiscrimination …

In this paper, we conduct a field experiment with a large sample of financial planner
professionals in Canada to elicit factors which may influence client recommendations. Using …

Using a randomized controlled trial we test how retail investors assess and update their
priors based on different types of financial advice, which either aligns with their priors or …

We arranged for trained undercover men and women to pose as potential clients and visit all
65 local financial advisory firms in Hong Kong. At financial planning firms, but not at …

We analyze the long-term effects of living under communism and its anticapitalist doctrine on
households' financial investment decisions and attitudes towards financial markets. Utilizing …

We revisit the limited stock market participation puzzle leveraging a qualitative research
approach that is commonly used in many social sciences, but much less so in finance or …