Stephen G. DimmockRoy KouwenbergOlivia S. MitchellKim PeijnenburgNanyang Technological UniversityMahidol UniversityErasmus University RotterdamUniversity of PennsylvaniaNational Bureau of Economic ResearchUniversita Bocconi2018-12-112019-03-142018-12-112019-03-142016-03-01Journal of Financial Economics. Vol.119, No.3 (2016), 559-5770304405X2-s2.0-84960803655https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/43236© 2016. We test the relation between ambiguity aversion and five household portfolio choice puzzles: nonparticipation in equities, low allocations to equity, home-bias, own-company stock ownership, and portfolio under-diversification. In a representative US household survey, we measure ambiguity preferences using custom-designed questions based on Ellsberg urns. As theory predicts, ambiguity aversion is negatively associated with stock market participation, the fraction of financial assets in stocks, and foreign stock ownership, but it is positively related to own-company stock ownership. Conditional on stock ownership, ambiguity aversion is related to portfolio under-diversification, and during the financial crisis, ambiguity-averse respondents were more likely to sell stocks.Mahidol UniversityBusiness, Management and AccountingEconomics, Econometrics and FinanceArticleSCOPUS10.1016/j.jfineco.2016.01.003