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Financial Education, Literacy and Investment Attitudes

Brugiavini, Agar - 2015

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...

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Do education and health influence economic growth and food security? : evidence from Bangladesh

Islam, Md. Saiful - In: International journal of happiness and development 6 (2020) 1, pp. 59-75

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Financial education, literacy and investment attitudes

Brugiavini, Agar; Cavapozzi, Danilo; Padula, Mario; … - 2015 - This version: May 2015

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Literacy and Intrahousehold Externalities

Gibson, John - 2001

The size of the intrahousehold externality created when a literate household member provides literacy services to … appears to be large. These results support the use of a new measure of literacy, developed by Foster (1998) to take account of … the gains when illiterates live in households where at least one person is literate. Regional rankings change when the new …

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Parental Investments in Early Childhood and the Gender Gap in Math and Literacy

Chuan, Amanda; List, John A.; Samujjwala, Shreemayi; … - 2022

Parental investments at early ages can shape children’s future educational specializations. Using a longitudinal study, we find that parents invest more in daughters than sons at ages 3-5. Moreover, parents’ beliefs about their children’s reading and math abilities are higher for girls...

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Teacher literacy and numeracy skills : international evidence from PIAAC and ALL

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Vermeulen, Stan; Wolf, Inge de - 2016

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy …

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Age heaping and numeracy : looking behind the curtain

Blum, Matthias; Krauss, Karl-Peter - 2017

Age heaping-based numeracy indicators have served as valuable tools to derive basic human capital estimates, especially for periods where other indicators are unavailable. However, the accuracy of individual age statements usually remains unknown, and due to the lack of precise information it...

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The legacy of history or the outcome of reforms? : primary education and literacy in Liberal Italy (1871-1911)

Bozzano, Monica; Cappelli, Gabriele - 2019

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The impact of the slave trades on literacy rate in Africa

Vlahek, Karlo; Kitissou, Kpoti - In: African journal of business and economic research : AJBER 18 (2023) 3, pp. 27-41

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Digital and financial literacy and the development of e-government platforms

Lo Prete, Anna - 2024

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