Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of … household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or …

estimators to compare the performance in a test of fi nancial knowledge of students in treatment and control schools. In another … specification, we use school fixed-effect estimates of the effect of the course on changes in scores in tests of financial knowledge …. The program increased treated students’ financial knowledge by between one-fourth and one-third of a standard deviation …

tests of financial knowledge increased by 16% of one standard deviation, and treated youths were more likely to become …

The financial decisions of individual citizens impact our nation's economic health. Therefore, the knowledge and … competence of individuals as it relates to personal financial decisions is important. The rate of personal savings in the United … available today it is crucial that individuals possess basic financial knowledge of banking and finance to reduce their …

, attitudes as measured by interest in finance, specialisation in household tasks and risk preferences. However, the gender gaps …

area countries in the distributions of various measures of debt conditional on household characteristics. We consider three … differences. We use data from the first wave of a new survey of household finances, the Household Finance and Consumption Survey …