Gender and Choice of Pension Product

Linda Sandris Larsen, Ulf Nielsson*, Jesper Rangvid

*Corresponding author for this work

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number102692
JournalFinance Research Letters
Volume47
Number of pages7
ISSN1544-6123
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2022

Bibliographical note

Published online: 14 January 2022.

Keywords

  • Pension savings
  • Guaranteed and market-based returns
  • Gender differences

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