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"Increasingly, individuals are in charge of their own financial security and are confronted with ever more complex financial instruments. However, there is evidence that many individuals are not well-equipped to make sound saving decisions. This paper demonstrates widespread financial illiteracy...
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"We investigate whether information technology can help physicians more efficiently acquire new knowledge in a clinical … model of the influence that information technology has on the acquisition of new medical knowledge. Although the theoretical … medical knowledge when physicians are coping with information overload. Secondly, spillover effects will likely lead to …
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that schooling alters the input mix chosen to produce health. This suggests that the more educated have more knowledge … about the health production function and they have more health knowledge. This paper uses data from the 1997 and 2002 waves … health knowledge. The survey design allows us to observe the increase in health knowledge of young adults after their level …
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covered workers about their pensions. We suggest that causality is more likely to run from pension wealth to pension knowledge … determinants of pension and Social Security knowledge. Third, standardizing for incomes and other factors, a pension of higher … influenced by knowledge of pensions. In sum, numeracy does not influence wealth in whole or in part by affecting financial …
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