 The Effect of Academic Background on Household Portfolio Selection: Evidence from Japanese Repeated Cross Section DataYukinobu Kitamura () and Taisuke Uchino Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series from Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University Abstract: This paper investigates whether the participation costs play an important role in explaining the households' limited stock market participation in Japan. In order to identify such costs, we focus on the difference of stock holding probability between two household groups whose financial literacy are a priori considered to be different: college-graduate households and non-college-graduate households. Our empirical analysis is utilizing Fairlie (1999, 2005)'s Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique in order to decompose the differences that observed in the Japanese repeated cross section survey data. Estimation results show that (1) the participation probability amounts to 35% for college-graduate households, while 18% of non-college-graduate households have stocks, (2) only 30-50% of the differences can be explained by the social and economic attributes, especially by income, wealth and the size of household heads' place of work. These findings imply the existence of participation costs based on the financial literacy. Keywords: Limited market participation; participation costs; Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hst:ghsdps:gd10-149 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series from Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University Contact information at EDIRC. |
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