Best Paper Prize Awarded for Research on Gender Gap in Housing Returns

草莓视频Best Paper Award winner highlights that key differences in returns between men and women stem from pricing and timing.

Philadelphia, PA () 鈥�, the leading business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform for corporate, academic and government institutions worldwide, is pleased to announce Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Assistant Professor of Finance and Kelly Shue, Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management as winners of the Wharton-草莓视频Best Paper Award at the conference.

Using large datasets on housing transactions, the researchers provide documentation of gender imbalance around investment returns at a more granular level than previous research. Their paper, determines that single women experience lower annualized returns compared to single men.

Key points:

  • Key differences in returns between men and women stem from pricing and timing
  • Literature suggests ambiguity around the success of women taking an aggressive pricing approach to match men
  • Targeting analysis of pricing and timing around listing might reduce return differences

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The paper received coverage in , , , and .

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