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Digital Interventions to Increase Financial Knowledge: Evidence from a Pilot RCT
Oberrauch, Luis; Kaiser, Tim - 2024
We study the effects of low-intensity digital financial education interventions on undergraduate students' financial … education treatment and an incentive-based approach where students are issued pre-paid voucher cards worth 50 EUR to register … direct financial education in our setting, and there is no evidence for complementarity between these interventions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534034
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More Education Does Make You Happier – Unless You Are Unemployed
Bertermann, Alexander; Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; … - 2023
This paper investigates the causal effect of education on life satisfaction, exploring effect heterogeneity along … longitudinal information, we also address the endogeneity of employment status. We find a positive effect of education on life … function as a unifying explanation for the asymmetric effect of education on life satisfaction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469528
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Effects of Stress on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments
Delaney, Liam; Fink, Günther; Harmon, Colm P. - 2014
The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision making among individuals aged 50 and older. Using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352265
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Effects of Stress on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments
Delaney, Liam; Fink, Günther; Harmon, Colm P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision making among individuals aged 50 and older. Using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105080
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Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2008
skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by …. Substantial returns to basic cognitive skills are established, while the education system -especially the lower levels of formal … education - is found to be relatively successful in creating these skills. At the same time the results hint at there being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269004
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Marital violence and women's employment and property status: evidence from North Indian villages
Bhattacharya, Manasi; Bedi, Arjun S.; Chhachhi, Amrita - 2009
Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269557
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Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status: Evidence from North Indian Villages
Bhattacharya, Manasi; Bedi, Arjun S.; Chhachhi, Amrita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976901
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Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by …. Substantial returns to basic cognitive skills are established, while the education system – especially the lower levels of formal … education – is found to be relatively successful in creating these skills. At the same time the results hint at there being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700846
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Financial Literacy and Food Security in Extremely Vulnerable Households
Millimet, Daniel L.; McDonough, Ian K.; Fomby, Thomas B. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307315
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Bringing financial literacy and education to low and middle income countries: The need to review, adjust, and extend current wisdom
Holzmann, Robert - 2010
the effectiveness of financial education in low and middle income countries. The two activities and their staging have …, there is little robust empirical evidence that financial education can improve it. While applying the financial capability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333011