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Housing Provident Fund, risk attitude, and household financial investment engagement: an asset-building perspective

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  • Yingying Zhang

    (School of Social Work)

  • Shu Fang

    (Central University of Finance and Economics)

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The income gap stemming from disparities in asset ownership is a significant contributor to economic inequality and social polarization. Asset income is derived from the growth and realization of these assets, with financial investment serving as the key mechanism for transforming household assets into asset-generated income. Institutionalized wealth accumulation mechanisms play a vital role in facilitating household asset growth through the influence of risk preferences.The Housing Provident Fund (HPF), an integral component of China’s social welfare and security system, is one such policy aimed at promoting asset building. This study employs linear regression and ordered logit regression, using cross-sectional data from the 2019 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), to investigate the relationship between HPF possession, risk attitude, and financial investment engagement. To ensure robustness, a bootstrap mediation analysis is conducted to evaluate the mediating role of household heads’ risk attitudes in this relationship. The results indicate that HPF possession is positively associated with financial investment engagement (β = 0.091, p

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  • Yingying Zhang & Shu Fang, 2025. "Housing Provident Fund, risk attitude, and household financial investment engagement: an asset-building perspective," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 12(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palcom:v:12:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1057_s41599-025-04692-4
    DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-04692-4
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