Gender and choice of pension product

Linda Sandris Larsen, Ulf Nielsson and Jesper Rangvid

Finance Research Letters, 2022, vol. 47, issue PB

Abstract: We use individual-investor data from Denmark to study whether women prefer pension schemes with lower financial risk due to a guaranteed return over those offering more uncertain market-based return. Guaranteed-return schemes provide less risky but also lower expected returns. We study both the extensive (whether women have lower tendency to invest in market-based schemes) and the intensive margin (how much more women invest in schemes with guaranteed return). We find women less likely to invest in riskier pension schemes, and those women who do, invest lower amounts compared to men. This contributes to inequality between men and women during retirement.

Keywords: Pension savings; Guaranteed and market-based returns; Gender differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 G11 G20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2022.102692

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