Machine generated contents note: 1.Anatomy of Financial Hardship / Guglielmo Weber -- 2.The Consequences of Financial Hardship (and Recessions) on Income and Welfare / Guglielmo Weber -- 3.Characterizing Income Shocks and their Transmission to Household Consumption / Torben Heien Nielsen --...

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students’ grade point averages and time to graduation. The set of independent variables contains...

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...