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SAFE Working Paper No. 86
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Financial Education, Literacy and Investment Attitudes
SAFE Working Paper No. 86
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Posted: 04 Mar 2015
Last Revised: 07 May 2015
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Financial Education, Literacy and Investment Attitudes
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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
JEL Classification: D14, G11, I20
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Brugiavini, Agar and Cavapozzi, Danilo and Padula, Mario and Pettinicchi, Yuri, Financial Education, Literacy and Investment Attitudes (May 2015). SAFE Working Paper No. 86, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2572297 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2572297
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