In this article, we present and test experimentally a low-cost, Internet-based, financial literacy intervention program that we designed for implementation with the largest industrial pension fund in Italy. The program, Finlife (Financial Education and Planning for a Long Life) included: 1) an...

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households’ participation decisions in assets are more responsive...

This paper studies financial behaviors of households in China's Beijing urban area. Demographic and psychometrical data were collected through questionnaire surveys and analyzed by logistic regression and Tobit regression methods. Several important factors which affect the willingness of the...