Financial Literacy Confidence Bias,Risk Attitude,and Households'Stock Market Participation:An Empirical Analysis Based on CHFS 2019 Dataset
Based on the China Household Finance Survey(CHFS)dataset,this study aimed to explore the effects of financial literacy self-confidence bias and risk attitude on Chinese households'stock market participation.We found that the increased subjective and objective financial literacy as well as financial literacy self-confidence bias could improve the breadth and depth of households'participation in the stock market.Further analyses showed that overconfidence in financial literacy would enable households more actively to participate stock market.By using moderating-effects analyses,we found that the risk attitude positively moderated the effects of financial literacy self-confidence bias on the allocation of household stock assets and family participation in stock market.Moreover,the heterogeneity analyses revealed that the interaction between risk attitude and financial literacy confidence bias positively influenced the stock market participation of rural residents,high-income families,and low-education families.Therefore,it is crucial to improve the level of households'financial knowledge and investors'risk cognition in order to optimize household stock assets allocation and promote the development of China's stock market.