We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta-analysis of 37 (quasi-) experiments. We find that financial education treatment has, on average, a significant and sizeable impact on financial knowledge (+0.25 SD), similar to...

The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a representative survey of the Italian population covering 24,000 individuals, reports detailed information on children attendance of public and private schools and parents' self-assessment of the quality of public schools in the city of residence....

Dieser Beitrag wendet sich an Lehrer und ist daher primär didaktisch orientiert. Das Ziel besteht darin, einige Kernüberlegungen aus dem Forschungsprogramm einer „ökonomischen Theorie der Moral“ so vorzustellen, dass sie für den Schulunterricht adaptiert werden können. Mit Hilfe des...

Without a National Council on Economic Education affiliated state council, Mississippi lacked a formal economic education advocate for more than two decades. A new state council along with two university-based centers have recently undertaken an aggressive push to elevate the role and importance...

Using data from the 2012 Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) for Italy, this paper investigates whether financial literacy skills play a role in shaping the value that high school students place on schooling. We hypothesize that higher financial literacy may foster students'...

Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of the size of the school choice set at the time of starting primary school. With that purpose, we exploit multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry, which not only define when a student can start elementary school, but also the...

Dieser Beitrag wendet sich an Lehrer und ist daher primär didaktisch orientiert. Das Ziel besteht darin, einige Kernüberlegungen aus dem Forschungsprogramm einer "ökonomischen Theorie der Moral" so vorzustellen, dass sie für den Schulunterricht adaptiert werden können. Mit Hilfe des...

Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of school choice at the time of starting primary school. To study the contribution of school choice, we exploit the combination of multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry, and the difference across municipalities in the...

Using administrative data for Chile, we study the impact of School Starting Age (SSA) on the characteristics of the school of first enrollment. After addressing the usual concerns of endogeneity using minimum age requirements and an RD-design, we uncover gains associated with a delay of school...