Financial Literacy: Implications for Retirement Security and the Financial Marketplace
Olivia S. Mitchell · Annamaria Lusardi
Jul 2019 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Kitty Hendrix
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As financial markets grow ever more complex and integrated, households must make increasingly sophisticated and all-too-often irreversible economic decisions. This is particularly evident in retirement decision-making. Traditional defined benefit pension schemes are being replaced with defined contribution pensions; employer and government judgment regarding how much to save and where to invest has been replaced by employees having to make these choices on their own (sometimes assisted by advisers); and retirees have become responsible for managing their own pension assets.
This volume explores how financial literacy can enhance peoples' ability to make informed economic choices. It proposes that financial literacy determines how well people make and execute saving, investing, borrowing, and planning decisions. It examines causality using controlled settings to disentangle whether financial literacy causes saving or vice versa, and demonstrates that financial education programs do indeed enhance financial decision-making and asset accumulation.
This volume explores how financial literacy can enhance peoples' ability to make informed economic choices. It proposes that financial literacy determines how well people make and execute saving, investing, borrowing, and planning decisions. It examines causality using controlled settings to disentangle whether financial literacy causes saving or vice versa, and demonstrates that financial education programs do indeed enhance financial decision-making and asset accumulation.
As financial markets grow ever more complex and integrated, households must make increasingly sophisticated and all-too-often irreversible economic decisions. This is particularly evident in retirement decision-making. Traditional defined benefit pension schemes are being replaced with defined co...
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Olivia S. Mitchell is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Annamaria Lusardi is the Director of the new Financial Literacy Center, a joint consortium with the Rand Corporation, Dartmouth College, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, with the support of the Social Security Administration.
Kitty Hendrix is from Carmel, California, and has been a professional actor and singer since childhood. An Audie Award finalist in 2018, Kitty has consistently received excellent reviews for her work from AudioFile magazine.
Olivia S. Mitchell is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Annamaria Lusardi is the Director of the new Financial Literacy Center, a joint consortium with the Rand Corporation, Dartmouth College...
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