Findings from four recent projects on how neighbors, peers, financial advisors, and exogenous stressors affect wealth accumulation are presented. Having neighbors with college economics or business education promotes retirement saving. Greater local wealth inequality and mobility at the start of...

This paper uses unique administrative data and a quasi-field experiment of exogenous allocation of refugees in Sweden to estimate effects of exposure to financially literate neighbors on household financial behavior. The paper contributes evidence of a causal impact of financial literacy on...

This paper uses unique administrative data and a quasi-field experiment of exogenous allocation in Sweden to estimate medium- and longer-run effects on financial behavior from exposure to financially literate neighbors. It contributes evidence of causal impact of exposure and of a social...