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Economic Literacy: An International Comparison
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This article uses international panel data on 55 countries from 1995 to 2008, merging indicators of economic literacy with a large set of macroeconomic and institutional variables. Results show that there is substantial heterogeneity of financial and economic competence across countries, and that human capital indicators (PISA test scores and college attendance) are positively correlated with economic literacy. Furthermore, inhabitants of countries with more generous social security systems are generally less literate, lending support to the hypothesis that the incentives to acquire economic literacy are related to the amount of resources available for private accumulation.
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Financial literacy and stock market participation
van Rooij, M., Lusardi, A., & Alessie, R. (2011) · Journal of Financial Economics · doi:10.1016/j.jfineco.2011.03.006 · Cited by 3,554
Understanding Pensions: Cognitive Function, Numerical Ability and Retirement Saving*
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The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence
Lusardi, A., & Mitchell, O. S. (2014) · Journal of Economic Literature · doi:10.1257/jel.52.1.5 · Cited by 4,698
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Financial literacy and retirement planning in Germany
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Financial literacy, financial advice, and financial behavior
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“While some studies measure financial literacy using simple indicator variables (Jappelli 2010; Gathergood 2012), several other authors rely on more advanced techniques such as principal component analysis (e.g. Behrmann et al. 2012; Klapper et al. 2013; Lusardi et al. 2014), iterated principal…”
MethodFinancial literacy and consumer credit portfolios
Disney, R., & Gathergood, J. (2013) · Journal of Banking & Finance · doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2013.01.013 · Cited by 439
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- Authors
- Jappelli, T.
- Venue
- The Economic Journal
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2010-10-19
- Volume
- 120
- Issue
- 548
- Pages
- F429-F451
- ISSN
- 0013-0133 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-0297
- OpenAlex
- W1573637034
- Cited by
- 340
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 74.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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