SFS Cavalcade North America 2026
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
May 18-21, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Track T1-2: Preferences, Experiences, and Investor Behavior
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Risky for Me, Safe for Thee: How Parents Invest for Themselves vs. Their Children 1Copenhagen Business School; 2Indiana University Kelley School of Business Would the same person invest differently depending on the investment purpose? Using Danish administrative data linking parents and children, we compare adults who manage both a personal brokerage account and their child’s account. Exploiting within-family variation, we show that child-labeled accounts contain safer, more diversified portfolios, trade less, and have a weaker disposition effect, yielding higher Sharpe ratios despite lower expected returns. Parents' personal accounts take more systematic and idiosyncratic risk, tilting toward foreign and lottery stocks. These within-investor differences reconcile active behavior in brokerage data with the inertia documented in 401(k)s, suggesting that the gap reflects mental accounting.
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