The value of financial literacy and financial education for workers

Pierre-Carl Michaud

IZA World of Labor, 2017, No 400, 400

Abstract: The level of financial literacy in developed countries is low and contributes to growing wealth inequality. Benefits from increasing the level of financial literacy include more effective saving for retirement and better debt management. However, there are significant costs in terms of time and money of acquiring financial literacy, which imply that the net value of acquiring financial literacy is heterogeneous in the population. This potentially makes designing effective interventions difficult.

Keywords: financial literacy; education; saving (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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