Abstract
We use data from the US Health and Retirement Study to examine the relationship between individual portfolio decisions and perceived discrimination, with a focus on racial discrimination. We show that sensing racial discrimination has a bigger association with shaping portfolio decisions than any other type of discrimination. Perceived racial discrimination is correlated not only with the choice to opt-in risky financial assets, but also the amount of assets held. Specifically, racial discrimination is associated with reducing the probability of holding risky assets by 4.0% and reducing the amount of these holdings by 4.2%. Most of the respondents who report being racially discriminated against, are non-White, and thus such experiences add to the racial wealth inequality.
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