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JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 191-211Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022109000002799
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Theory indicates that frictions (e.g., information and transaction costs) could account for the lower than expected stock market participation rates. This paper examines the hypothesis that there has been a fundamental change in participation and links this change to the reduction of these frictions by the advent of the Internet. Using panel data on household participation rates over the past decade, the results show computer/Internet using households raised participation substantially more than non-computer using households. The increased probability of participation was equivalent to having over $27,000 in additional household income or over two more mean years of education.
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