Financial literacy

Thai middle-class women do not lag behind

verfasst von

Antonia Grohmann, Olaf Hübler, Roy Kouwenberg, Lukas Menkhoff

Abstract

This research studies the stylized fact of a “gender gap” in that women tend to have lower financial literacy than men. Our data which samples middle-class people from Bangkok does not show a gender gap for those with at least minimum wage earnings. This result is not explained by men's low financial literacy, nor by women's high income and good education. Rather, country characteristics may influence finance-specific gender equality, such as Thailand's small gender gaps in pupils’ mathematics abilities and secondary school enrollment, and women's strong role in financial affairs. This may indicate ways to reduce the gender gap in financial literacy elsewhere.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Externe Organisation(en)

Aarhus University
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. (DIW Berlin)
Mahidol University
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance

Band

31

ISSN

2214-6350

Publikationsdatum

09.2021

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Finanzwesen

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 4 – Qualitativ hochwertige Bildung, SDG 5 – Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter, SDG 8 – Anständige Arbeitsbedingungen und wirtschaftliches Wachstum, SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten

Elektronische Version(en)

http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148002 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2021.100537 (Zugang: Geschlossen)