In a different Forbes blog, Rick Ferri (The Indexer) mentions the work by BradBarber ( University of California at Davis), Emmanuel George ( Ross School of Business), Reuven Lehavy ( Ross School of Business), and Brett Trueman ( Anderson School of Management).
In a landmark study titled Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence and Common Stock Investment professors BradBarber 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.