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intervention prompted specific subgroups (i.e., youth with lower levels of financial knowledge) to invest more in financial …
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This paper uses data from the 2015 China Household Financial Survey to analyse the gender gap in financial literacy in China. The sample consists of 36,311 adult respondents. A variety of financial literacy measures are employed. We show that important predictors of financial literacy include...
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the degree of gender convergence in financial knowledge in the country of ancestry, the higher the financial knowledge of … with greater financial knowledge for men but not for women in the US. Once we remove any country-of-ancestry gender … variation from these preferences, gender convergence in financial knowledge continues to be associated with women's (relative …
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requirements create an additional barrier for students? Comparing students in states with and without standalone personal finance … behaviors, and these findings suggest there are not simultaneous adverse effects overall or for at-risk students …
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(aged 13–17), and 299 undergraduate college students. We measure competitiveness via the likelihood of (i) winning an …, equivalent to approximately $451. This gap persists for college students, albeit with a somewhat smaller magnitude of $297 …. Finally, male teenagers and college students wager substantially less when competing against females. In turn, the gender of …
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The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, an example of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that exponential growth bias and standard measures of financial literacy are negatively correlated in a...
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, effects were larger for those with greater financial knowledge, suggesting this type of tool complements, rather than …
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Financial Education courses required for high school graduation make a difference in students' future financial lives … of services to offer their students, and these networks are more predictive than economic or demographic characteristics …
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We examine the impact of providing access to mobile savings accounts and improving financial management skills on the performance of female-led microenterprises in Mozambique. We find evidence that both interventions can improve business performance but the effects are highly heterogeneous....
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Estimation of the causal effect of a binary treatment on outcomes often requires conditioning on covariates to address selection on observed variables. This is not straightforward when one or more of the covariates are measured with error. Here, we present a new semi-parametric estimator that...
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