The Gender Gap in Financial Security: What We Know and Don't Know about Australian Households
利用2006年HILDA调查数据，研究澳大利亚单身男女户主家庭的净财富差异，发现性别财富差距集中在特定资产类型，且在高净值家庭中财富构成差异显著，个体特征只能解释部分差距。
This study investigates the gender wealth gap in Australia by examining differences in the net worth of households headed by single women and men, using data from the 2006 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. It demonstrates that the gender wealth gap is concentrated in particular types of assets, and differences in the composition of wealth, especially in high net worth households, are an important feature of the wealth gap in Australia. Using decomposition techniques within a quantile regression framework, the study explores the effects of individual characteristics of single male and female households on their wealth and finds that individual factors play a relatively small role in accounting for the large gender wealth gap at the top of the wealth distribution. Therefore, differences in the composition of men and women's wealth portfolios contribute to the gender wealth gap, and future research must account for these differences.