Does Financial Education Impact Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior, and If So, When?

Tim Kaiser and Lukas Menkhoff

The World Bank Economic Review, 2017, vol. 31, issue 3, 611-630

Abstract: In a meta-analysis of 126 impact evaluation studies, we find that financial education significantly impacts financial behavior and, to an even larger extent, financial literacy. These results also hold for the subsample of randomized experiments (RCTs). However, intervention impacts are highly heterogeneous: financial education is less effective for low-income clients as well as in low- and lower-middle–income economies. Specific behaviors, such as the handling of debt, are more difficult to influence and mandatory financial education tentatively appears to be less effective. Thus, intervention success depends crucially on increasing education intensity and offering financial education at a “teachable moment.”

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Date: 2017
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