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Population Aging in India : Facts, Issues, and Options
Agarwal, Arunika - 2016
India, one of the world's two population superpowers, is undergoing unprecedented demographic changes. Increasing … context, scope, and magnitude of India's demographic changes.It then details the major challenges these shifts pose in the … presents an overview of India's recent and ongoing initiatives to adapt to population aging and provide support to older adults …
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Effects of Intergenerational Transfers on Elderly Coresidence with Adult Children : Evidence from Rural India
Pal, Sarmistha - 2021
The present paper argues that intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children are important determinants of any coresidency arrangement though generally overlooked in the existing literature. In this respect the paper distinguishes between exchange of both financial and...
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Early Life Access to Polio Vaccines and Declining Disability Rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio …-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus …
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Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy
Almenberg, Johan - 2011
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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Financial Literacy and Attitudes to Redistribution
Montagnoli, Alberto - 2017
This study combines novel financial-literacy data with measures of attitudes to redistribution from the British Election Study. We find a significant negative relationship between financial literacy and attitudes in favour of government intervention for income redistribution. The effect is...
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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...
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Financial Literacy and Preparation for Retirement
Nolan, Anne - 2019
The economic and financial landscape facing individuals as they move through their life-cycle is becoming increasing complex. Internationally, declines in the coverage and generosity of public programmes mean that individuals now need to assume responsibility for a greater share of their future...
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Financial Literacy and Food Security in Extremely Vulnerable Households
Millimet, Daniel L. - 2015
Food insecurity is one of the most, if not the most, significant, nutrition-related public health issue confronted in the US. Unfortunately, we know very little about the determinants of food security except that it is not synonymous with poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food...
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Finance for All : The Impact of Financial Literacy Training in Compulsory Secondary Education in Spain
Hospido, Laura - 2015
We estimate the impact on objective measures of financial literacy of a 10-hours financial education program among 15-year old students in compulsory secondary schooling. We use a matched sample of students and teachers in Madrid and two different estimation strategies. Firstly, we use...
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The Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Choices : Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain
Bover, Olympia - 2018
We conducted a randomized controlled trial where 3,000 9th grade students coming from 78 high schools received a financial education course at different points of the year. Right after the treatment, test performance increased by 16% of one standard deviation, treated youths were more likely to...
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