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The gender wealth gap in the United States: Trends and explanations
Social Science Research, 2022 It is difficult to study the gender wealth gap because wealth is usually measured at the household level, and men and women often live in the same household. I use person-level measures of wealth, attributing to each person the assets and debts owned in their name, to study the gender wealth gap in the United States among working age people.
A. Lee
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Decomposing gender gaps in HIV service outcomes [PDF]
BMJ Global HealthThis study uses Population-based HIV Impact Assessments survey data to examine factors associated with gender disparities in HIV outcomes. The analysis examined the share of adult males and females living with HIV who are aware of their status, are on ...
Allyala Nandakumar +8 more
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The Gender Wealth Gap by Household Head in Vietnam
Advances in Decision Sciences, 2019 While the gender income gap has been examined extensively, the gender wealth gap has largely been ignored, especially for emerging markets such as Vietnam. The lack of serious analysis has caused great concern for practitioners and policymakers as public policy targeting the inequality in income and wealth across genders has not achieved their desired ...
McAleer, Michael +3 more
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What Explains the Gender Gap in Wealth? Evidence from Administrative Data [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 AbstractThis paper studies the gender gap in net wealth. We use administrative data on wealth that are linked to the Estonian Household Finance and Consumption Survey, which provides individual-level wealth data for all household types. The unconditional gender gap in mean wealth is 45%, but this sizeable gap in means originates mainly from the top ...
Meriküll, Jaanika +2 more
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Financial Empowerment for Women: Closing the Gender Wealth Gap
Equator Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship (EJME)This research investigates the role of financial literacy, access to financial resources, and financial empowerment in addressing the gender wealth gap within PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero). Using a quantitative research design and employing the Smart PLS analysis tool, the study examines the direct and indirect effects of these variables on the ...
Anatia Agusti, Devi Edriani, Andre Ilyas
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The Gender Wealth Gap in Europe [PDF]
, 2014 This paper studies the gender wealth gap using 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey data for 15 European countries, and finds that households with only one male adult have more net wealth than households with one female adult, and that households with an adult couple have the highest net wealth.
Schneebaum, Alyssa +4 more
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The Narrowing of the Gender Wealth Gap across the Nineteenth-Century United States [PDF]
Social Science History, 2017 Shammas (1994) documented the expansion of women's wealth holding across the nineteenth-century United States, explaining it as the result of the married women's property acts (MWPAs) passed in most of states starting circa 1840. We look at the timing of the expansion of women's wealth holding, drawing on archival and published evidence from probate ...
Catherine L. McDevitt, James R. Irwin
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Reversed accounting: legal professionals, families and the gender wealth gap in France
Socio-Economic Review, 2019 AbstractThis article describes how legal professionals and families contribute to the widening, legitimation and concealment of the gender wealth gap. It is based on ethnographic observation, study of legal files and statistical data on gender wealth inequality in France.
C. Bessière
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The Gender Wealth Gap in the United States
, 2020 Wealth has been found to be associated with financial wellbeing in ways not captured by income as well as increased social connections, improved physical and mental health, and increased emotional, cognitive, and behavioral development among children. Preliminary research indicates that a gender disparity in net worth exists in the U.S.
Laurel Sariscsany
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The Gender Wealth Gap and the Role of Private Pension Wealth in Great Britain
Review of Economics of the HouseholdResearch on gender wealth gaps is hampered by the fact that most surveys gather information on wealth at the household or family level rather than for individuals. It is also limited in coverage, often not including pension wealth. Here we exploit the rich data on individual wealth including pension wealth obtained by the British Wealth and Assets ...
Juan C. Palomino, Brian Nolan
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