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The Effect of Financial Education on the Quality of Decision Making
August 09, 2016Abstract: We introduce a method for measuring the quality of financial decision making built around a notion of financial competence, which gauges the alignment between individuals' choices and those they would make if they properly understood their opportunities. We use it to document the… Read More »
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The Effect of Financial Education on the Quality of Decision Making
November 19, 2015Watch the video.
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The Effect of Financial Education on the Quality of Decision Making
June 29, 2015Abstract: We introduce the concept of financial competence, a measure of how closely individuals’ choices align with those they would make if they properly understood their opportunity sets. The concept is firmly rooted in the principles of choice-based behavioral welfare analysis and… Read More »