personal assets. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between financial literacy and household net worth, relying on … comprehensive measures of financial knowledge designed for a special module of the Dutch Central Bank Household Survey (DHS). Our … savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a …

A substantial literature exists on the impact of pension schemes, both public and private, on the level of household … private savings and about the magnitude of the displacement effect. Using data for 8,279 Canadian households, and estimates of … pension wealth (both private and social security) which we construct for each household in the sample, the estimated …

critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents … household savings. Then, we construct an OLG model that parametrically matches the PE empirical evidence. Finally, we extend the … aggregate fertility on household savings …

This paper reviews the literature on international comparative household finance. The paper presents summary statistics … on household balance sheets for 13 developed countries, and uses these statistics to discuss common features and … contrasts across countries. The paper then discusses retirement savings, investments in risky assets, unsecured debt, and …