Based on a sample of university students, we provide field and laboratory evidence that a small scale training intervention has a both statistically and economically significant effect on subjective and objective assessments of financial knowledge. We also show that for a large part of students...

In the United States student loan debt has reached one trillion dollars. The increase in student loan debt correlates with an increase in the number of student loans in default. This study was conducted to determine the financial literacy of college students enrolled in a pre-professional...

This paper is the first to evaluate the effectiveness of youth financial literacy education programs in an environment of a government mandate to embed financial literacy education across the curriculum in grades four to twelve. It presents results from a unique data set of survey and focus...

Based on a sample of university students, we provide field and laboratory evidence that a small scale training intervention has both a statistically and economically significant effect on subjective and objective assessments of financial knowledge. We show also that the intervention increases...