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Experts on investments and financial products assume that women are less amenable to risks and therefore put their money into secure investment products. A current study conducted by the DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research) challenges this view. The study demonstrates that men and women are equally likely to take a chance on risky investments - assuming that they have the same financial ...
In:
Weekly Report
6 (2010), 1, 1-4
| Oleg Badunenko, Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
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In:
Joachim Merz, Manfred Ehling ,
Time Use - Research, Data and Policy. Contributions from the International Conference on time use (ICTU), University of Lüneburg, April 22 -25, 1998
Baden-Baden: Nomos
473-489
| Miriam Beblo
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Freie Universität Berlin:
Volkswirtschaftliche Reihe,
2000,
(Diskussionsbeiträge des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftswissenschaften Nr. 2000/3)
| Miriam Beblo
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Heidelberg, New York:
Physica,
2001,
| Miriam Beblo
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2003,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-74)
| Miriam Beblo, Denis Beninger, Anja Heinze, Francois Laisney
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2003,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-32)
| Miriam Beblo, Denis Beninger, Francois Laisney
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We investigate the impact of gender identity on competitive and risk-taking behaviour of women and men in Germany. In a choice experiment, we compare the decision behaviour between individuals whose gender identities have been made salient through priming techniques and a control group of untreated individuals. All participants make choices for a set of 23 binary options of payment schemes for a maze ...
2013,
| Miriam Beblo, Denis Beninger, Norma Schmitt, Melanie Schröder
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In:
Review of Income and Wealth
47 (2001), 3, 301-320
| Miriam Beblo, Thomas Knaus
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This contribution investigates sickness absences of German men and women from a longitudinal perspective. The article tests hypotheses on household context and paid working conditions as determinants for men’s and women’s absences from employment. The empirical analysis is based on selected waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) between 1985 and 2001. The results of ordered probit estimations ...
In:
Feminist Economics
18 (2012), 1, 73-97
| Miriam Beblo, Renate Ortlieb
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In:
Journal of Population Economics
21 (2008), 2, 281-304
| Miriam Beblo, Julio R. Robledo