Disparities in financial literacy, pension planning, and saving behavior

Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Andreas Hackethal, Johannes Kasinger and Christine Laudenbach

No 362, SAFE Working Paper Series from Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

Abstract: Financial literacy affects wealth accumulation, and pension planning plays a key role in this relationship. In a large field experiment, we employ a digital pension aggregation tool to confront a treatment group with a simplified overview of their current pension claims across all pillars of the pension system. We combine survey and administrative bank data to measure the effects on actual saving behavior. Access to the tool decreases pension uncertainty for treated individuals. Average savings increase-especially for the financially less literate. We conclude that simplification of pension information can potentially reduce disparities in pension planning and savings behavior.

Keywords: saving behavior; retirement planning; digital planning tool (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 G11 G51 G53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-ban, nep-exp, nep-fle and nep-mfd
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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4260867

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