This study examined the differential impact on 79 high school students of a personal financial management course completed 1 to 4 years earlier. This study used a matched sample design based on a school system's records to identify students who had and had not taken a course in personal...

The Obama administration has proposed bold new policies to expand retirement savings. Through a program of Automatic IRAs, the approximately 78 million, largely lower-income, American workers not currently covered by a plan at work would be able to save through automatic individual retirement...

Financial literacy has assumed greater importance in our society as the result of the increasing complexity of financial products and the simultaneous cutting of economic safety nets by government, employers and even parents who worry about their own retirements. If the problem isn't solved and...

The Obama administration has proposed bold new policies to expand retirement savings. Through a program of Automatic IRAs, the approximately 78 million American workers not currently covered by a plan at work would be able to save through workplace-based individual retirement accounts. As...

Financial literacy has assumed greater importance in our society as the result of the increasing complexity of financial products and the simultaneous cutting of economic safety nets by government, employers and even parents who worry about their own retirements. If the problem isn’t solved...