Soft Negotiators or Modest Builders? Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns

49 Pages Posted: 30 Sep 2022 Last revised: 6 Dec 2022

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Anastasia Girshina

Stockholm School of Economics; Swedish House of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics

Laurent Bach

ESSEC Business School - Finance Department; Swedish House of Finance

Paolo Sodini

Stockholm School of Economics - Department of Finance; Swedish House of Finance

Date Written: October 12, 2021

Abstract

Using repeat-sales data on apartments in Sweden, we estimate the gender gap in housing returns. We confirm that single women’s returns gross of renovations are lower than single men’s by more than 2pp, that half of this gap is due to market timing, and that it is concentrated in short holding period. Adding administrative data on renovation expenses and traders’ background, we find that women are much less likely to undertake renovations and to specialize in real estate professional activities. Once these differences are accounted for, we do not find any gender gap in real estate returns.

Keywords: Gender gap, real estate, returns

JEL Classification: G5, G11

Suggested Citation

Girshina, Anastasia and Bach, Laurent and Sodini, Paolo and Team, MiDa, Soft Negotiators or Modest Builders? Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns (October 12, 2021). Swedish House of Finance Research Paper No. 22-14, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4230268 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4230268

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