In a landmark study titled Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence and Common Stock Investment professors Brad Barber and Terrance Odean of the University of California, Davis, documented that men traded 45 percent more than women and ended up having their net returns reduced by almost a full percentage point compared to women.

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In a 2001 study published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics Terry Odean and Brad Barber showed that the more often folks trade, the worse they do.

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