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Financial literacy and financial education: An overview
April 16, 2024Abstract: This article provides a concise narrative overview of the rapidly growing empirical literature on financial literacy and financial education. We first discuss stylized facts on the demographic correlates of financial literacy. We next cover the evidence on the effects… Read More »
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Financial Education Affects Financial Knowledge and Downstream Behaviors
April 25, 2020Abstract: We study the rapidly growing literature on the causal effects of financial education programs in a meta-analysis of 76 randomized experiments with a total sample size of over 160,000 individuals. The evidence shows that financial education programs have, on… Read More »