EU denktank Bruegel – Gender gap in financial literacy?
Het gesprek bij EU denktank Bruegel dat we deze week publiceren gaat over financieel benul en de verschillen tussen de seksen.
“If women and girls are fearless, they will benefit by becoming more financially independent, more financially secure, more in control of their future and society will benefit.”
Women are less financially literate than men. But does this gap reflect a lack of knowledge or a lack of confidence? To find out Maria Demertzis, deputy director of Bruegel is joined by Annamaria Lusardi, Professor of Economics and Accountancy at the George Washington University and non-resident fellow at Bruegel and Maarten van Rooij, senior economist at the Dutch Central Bank in The Sound of Economics.
Annamaria and Maarten explain their findings in a recently published paper that about one-third of the financial literacy gender gap can be explained by women’s lower confidence levels.
Bucher-Koenen F., R. Alessie, A. Lusardi and M. Rooij (2021) ‘Fearless woman: financial literacy and stock market participation’.
Vrouwen hebben altijd een “gat in hun hand’. Is altijd zo geweest.
En vrouwen denken niet op lange termijn. Idem.