Financial education, literacy and investment attitudes

Agar Brugiavini, Danilo Cavapozzi (), Mario Padula and Yuri Pettinicchi

No 86, SAFE Working Paper Series from Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

Abstract: 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 self-assessed more than actual financial knowledge.

Keywords: Financial education; Financial literacy; Planning; Investment attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 G11 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015, Revised 2015
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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2572297

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