Gender differences in revealed risk taking: evidence from mutual fund investors

By P. Dwyer, J. Gilkeson, John A. List. 2002

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Subfields: Accounting, Finance

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In Accounting

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Citations in the corpus

• Are Female CFOs Less Tax Aggressive? Evidence from Tax Aggressiveness (2014, background): “Empirical studies on gender issues often face the criticism that the observed differences are not attributable to gender, but instead to some omitted factors, such as situational factors and knowledge disparities (e.g., Dwyer, Gilkeson, and List 2002; Atkinson et al. 2003).”
• The Impact of CFO Gender on Bank Loan Contracting (2013, unknown): “Despite the proliferation of studies, there is still much debate as to the systematic differences between men and women with regard to their risk attitudes (e.g., Atkinson, Baird, & Frye, 2003; Dwyer & Gilkeson, 1999).”
• Female audit committee members and their influence on audit fees (2018, unknown): “Numerous studies have also found that women have a lower preference for risk (e.g., Barber and Odean 2001; Charness and Gneezy, 2012; Dwyer, Gilkeson, and List, 2002; Hallahan, Faff, and McKenzie, 2004; Jianakoplos and Bernasek, 1998; Johnson and Powell, 1994; Powell and Ansic, 1997; Thiruvadi and…”
• Gender, Stock Market Participation and Financial Literacy (2015, unknown): “Dwyer et al. (2002) examined the types of mutual funds that respondents had purchased for their largest single investment, their most recent investment, and their riskiest investment, where the latter is a composite variable created by selecting the riskiest mutual fund type reported across all inve”
• Financial Literacy and Financial Risk Tolerance of Individual Investors: Multinomial Logistic Regression Approach (2020, background): “…tolerance; and •• Risk tolerance increases as financial literacy level increase (Cavalheiro et al., 2012; Chang et al., 2004; Corter and Chen, 2006; Duasa & Yusof, 2013; Dwyer et al., 2002; Fisher & Yao, 2017; Kannadhasan, 2015; Mahdzan et al., 2017; Mishra & Mishra, 2016; Pinjisakikool, 2017;…”
• Exploring the Security of Information Sharing on Social Networking Sites: The Role of Perceived Control of Information (2014, background): “Dwyer et al. (2002) conducted a national study of mutual fund investors and found that women take fewer risks than men in their mutual fund investment decisions.”
• Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Expected Retirement Benefits (2007, background): “The second school of thought that Felton et al. (2003) cited suggests sociocultural reasons for men taking greater risks than women. Early research by Slovic (1966) noted that children are pressured during childhood (through peer pressure and social expectations) into behaving according to their cul”