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Financial Education in Schools: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies
Kaiser, Tim; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2018
We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta-analysis of 37 (quasi-) experiments. We find that financial education treatment has, on average, a significant and sizeable impact on financial knowledge (+0.25 SD), similar to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957211
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Financial Literacy and Financial Education: An Overview
Kaiser, Tim; Lusardi, Annamaria - 2024
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 of financial literacy on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534468
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Financial Education in Schools : A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies
Kaiser, Tim - 2019
We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta-analysis of 37 (quasi-) experiments. We find that financial education treatment has, on average, a significant and sizeable impact on financial knowledge (+0.25 SD), similar to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892190
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Financial Literacy, Risk and Time Preferences - Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention
Sutter, Matthias - 2020
We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825393
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Active Learning Improves Financial Education : Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Kaiser, Tim; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2022
We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small-scale retailers in rural western Uganda. The treatments contrast “active learning” with traditional “lecturing” within standardized lesson-plans. After six months,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293276
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Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior – a Randomized Educational Intervention
Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023
We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350763
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Migration and networks: Does education matter more than gender?
Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - 2010
at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270510
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Financial Education or Incentivizing Learning-by-Doing? Evidence from an RCT with Undergraduate Students
Oberrauch, Luis; Kaiser, Tim - 2024
We study the effects of digital financial education interventions on undergraduate students’ financial knowledge in a small-scale RCT. We test the substitutability or complementarity of two treatments: an online video financial education treatment and an incentive-based approach where students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047285
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Class Size Effects in Higher Education : Differences Across Stem and Non-Stem Fields
Kara, Elif - 2020
the effect along the dimensions of students' socio-economic status, ability, and gender, finding that in STEM disciplines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840212
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Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?
Abramitzky, Ran - 2020
In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840689