Gender, Risk, and Retirement

By A. Bernasek, S. Shwiff. 2001

432 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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In Accounting

1. M. Marchica
2. Roberto Mura
3. Sweta Tomar
4. H. Baker
5. K. Strauss
6. M. Mckenzie
7. Angelica Gonzalez
8. Mara Faccio

In Demography

1. Sweta Tomar
2. H. Baker
3. K. Strauss
4. Mara Faccio
5. Satish Kumar
6. Rachel T. A. Croson
7. Uri Gneezy
8. Arvid O. I. Hoffmann

In Economics and Econometrics

1. M. Marchica
2. Sweta Tomar
3. H. Baker
4. K. Strauss
5. M. Mckenzie
6. Angelica Gonzalez
7. Mara Faccio
8. Satish Kumar

Citations in the corpus

• Hard won and easily lost: A review and synthesis of theory and research on precarious manhood. (2013, background): “Several studies have shown that men take greater financial risks than women do (Bernasek & Shwiff, 2001; Sunden & Surette, 1998), and merely priming masculinity increases financial risktaking (Meier-Pesti & Goetze, 2006).”
• Gender Differences in Financial Reporting Decision-Making: Evidence from Accounting Conservatism (2015, neutral): “For instance, Dyreng, Hanlon, and Maydew (2010) do not find that executive gender affects corporate tax avoidance.”
• An empirical investigation of personal financial risk tolerance (2004, background): “Investigation of the investment decisions made by married individuals presents a unique challenge to researchers, as the investment portfolio of the couple may reflect the combined risk preferences of the couple (Bernasek & Shwiff, 2001).”
• Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Expected Retirement Benefits (2007, background): “Other studies that have found women more financially risk averse than men include Olsen and Cox (2001), Jianakoplos and Bernasek (1998), and Bernasek and Shwiff (2001).”
• Re-engaging with rationality in economic geography: behavioural approaches and the importance of context in decision-making (2007, background): “…procrastination in decision-making (Choi et al., 2001, 2003), choice overload (Iyengar et al., 2004), lack of response to incentives (Chan and Stevens, 2003; Choi et al., 2005) and gender differences in decision-making and attitudes towards risk (Bajtelsmit et al., 1999; Bernasek and Shwiff, 2001).”
• CEO Gender, Corporate Risk-Taking, and the Efficiency of Capital Allocation (2016, background): “Those studies include Bertrand and Schoar (2003), Malmendier and Tate (2005, 2008), Malmendier et al.”
• Gender Differences in Preferences (2009, background): “We find that the social preferences of women are more situationally specific than those of men; women are neither more nor less socially oriented, but their social preferences are more malleable.”