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Economists are outset to investigate the causes and consequences of financial illiteracy to better understand why retirement planning is defective and why so many households arrive close to retirement with footling or no wealth. Our review reveals that many households are unfamiliar with even the most bones economic concepts needed to brand saving and investment decisions. Such financial illiteracy is widespread: the immature and older people in the U.s.a. and other countries appear woefully nether-informed well-nigh bones financial concepts, with serious implications for saving, retirement planning, mortgages, and other decisions. In response, governments and several nonprofit organizations have undertaken initiatives to raise financial literacy. The experience of other countries, including a saving campaign in Japan as well as the Swedish pension privatization program, offers insights into possible roles for fiscal literacy and saving programs.

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Financial Literacy and Retirement

Preparedness: Show and Implications for

Financial Education

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell

Michigan

University o

Research

Retiremen

Center

"Financial Literacy and Retirement Preparedness: Evidence

and Implications for Financial Didactics Programs"

Annamaria Lusardi

Dartmouth College and NBER

Oiliva S. Mitchell

Wharton Schoolhouse

December 2006

Michigan Retirement Inquiry Center

University of Michigan

P.O. Box 1248

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

http://www.mrrc.isr.umich.edu/

(734) 615-0422

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a grant from the Social Security Administration through the

Michigan Retirement Enquiry Center (Grant # ten-P-98358-v). The findings and

conclusions expressed are solely those of the author and do not correspond the views of the

Social Security Administration, whatever bureau of the Federal regime, or the Michigan

Retirement Research Center.

Regents of the University of Michigan

David A. Brandon, Ann Arbor; Laurence B. Deitch, Bingham Farms; Olivia P. Maynard, Goodrich;

Rebecca McGowan, Ann Arbor; Andrea Fischer Newman, Ann Arbor; Andrew C. Richner, Grosse Pointe

Park; Southward. Martin Taylor, Gross Pointe Farms; Katherine E. White, Ann Arbor; Mary Sue Coleman, ex

officio

Fiscal Literacy and Retirement Preparedness: Testify and

Implications for Financial Instruction Programs

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia South. Mitchell

Abstract

Economists are beginning to investigate thursdaye causes and consequences of financial

illiteracy to better empathize why retirement planning is lacking and why and then many

households arrive close to retirement with little or no wealth. Our review reveals that

many households are unfamiliar with even the nigh basic economic concepts needed to

make saving and investment decisions. Such financial illiteracy is widespread: the young

and older people in the U.s. and other countries appear woefully under-informed

nigh basic financial computations, with serious implications for saving, retirement

planning, mortgages, and other decisions. In response, governments and several nonprofit

organizations have undertaken initiatives to enhance financial literacy. The experience of

other countries, including a saving entrada in Japan as well as the Swedish alimony

privatization program, offers insights into possible roles for financial literacy and saving

programs.

Authors' Acknowledgements

We give thanks Chetan Mehta for outstanding inquiry help just opinions and errors are solely

Financial Literacy and Retirement Preparedness:

Testify and Implications for Financial Pedagogy Programs

Workers and retirees take increasingly been every bitked to take on an unprecedented degree of

responsibility for their retirement and other saving, equally defined do good pensions decline and

regime programs face insolvency in one country later some other. As a issue, consumers now

confront a bewildering assortment of fiscal decisions and a wide range of fiscal products

ranging from 401(grand) plans to Roth to regular Individual Retirement Accounts, phased withdrawal

plans to annuities, and many more. This process implies that information technology is condign ever more than important

for households to acquire and manage economic know-how. Simply in practice, there is widespread

financial illiteracy; many households are unfamiliar with even the most basic economic concepts

needed to brand sensible saving and investment decisions. This has serious implications for

saving, retirement planning, retirement, mortgage, and other decisions, and it highlights a role for

policymakers working to boost financial literacy and education in the population. As one

example, the System for Economical Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2005) defines

"financial teaching" as:

"The process past which financial consumers/investors improve their understanding of

financial products and concepts and, through information, education, and/or objective

advice, develop the skills and conviction to go more aware of financial risks and

opportunities to brand informed choices, to know where to go for help, and to accept other

constructive actions to improve their financial well-beingness."

Building upon this definition, nosotros provide a review of the current state of financial literacy and

financial education programs, and we hash out whether consumers/investorsouthward appear to possess the

financial literacy necessary to process fiscal information and formulate adequate saving plans.

We also offer some examples of efforts to enhance financial literacy.

U.Due south. Evidence on Financial Literacy

Economists accept undertaken several contempo studies of financial literacy in the United

States. For instance, a survey conducted for the National Quango on Economic Education

(NCEE) by Harris Interactive in 2005 indicated that nearly all US adults believe that information technology is

"important to accept a good understanding of economics." Simply despite this lofty goal, the evidence

shows that bodily financial noesis was sorely deficient for both howdygh school students and

working-age adults. The survey consisted of a 24-item questionnaire on topics grouped into

categories including "Economics and the Consumer;" "Money, Involvement Rates and Inflation;" and

"Personal Finance."1 When results were tallied using standard grading criterion, adults had an

average score of C while the high school population fared worse, with virtually earning an F

(average score of 53%). Specially troublesome were the sections dealing with money, interest

rates, inflation, government and trade, and personal finance. The report also indicated gender

and minority gaps: White students and adults tended to score higher than their Blackness and

Hispanic peers and women scored lower than men.

Depression levels of financial literacy are confirmed by related research by the Jump$tart

Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy focusing on US loftier schoolhouse students (Mandell, 2004).

That group'due south biannual survey on basic personal fiscal direction skills and how to better

them showed that students fared poorly on credit direction and personal finance questions,

and they also knew fiddling about stocks, bonds, and other investments in 2004 and 2006.

Americans' lack of financial knowledge has been confirmed in the larger population by

Hilgert and Hogarth (2002) who used data from the University of Michigan's 2001 Survey of

Consumers focusing on respondents age 18-97. Some 1000 respondents were given a 28-

1 Some of the questions include the following: "Where do most people derive the largest portion of their personal

income?"; "What are business most likely to do when banks reduce their interest rates?"; and "Why do people

adopt to buy common funds rather than stocks in individual companies?"

question True/False Financial Literacy quiz, with questions examining knowledge near credit

(e.g. credit card statements, Apr, debt payments); saving patterns (e.g. interest rates, common

funds, insurance); mortgages (e.g. interest rate fluctuations, refinancing, use of ane'southward domicile as

collateral); and full general financial direction (due east.k. emergency funds, employer responsibilities

in retirement, bank obligations). Overall, that study found that Americans could correctly answer

merely two-thirds of the questions. They were best informed regarding mortgages (81% right

responses), followed by saving patterns (67% correct), credit cards (65% right), and general

fiscal management (60% correct). Respondents were less knowledgeable about common funds

and the stock market: only one-half knew that mutual funds do not pay a guaranteed rate of return,

and 56% knew that "over the 50ong-term, stocks have the highest rate of return on coin

invested." On dividing respondents into ii groups, those more than and those less financially

knowledgeable, the study confirmed that less financially knowledgeable respondents were more than

likely to be single, relatively uneducated, relatively low income, minority, and either immature or

one-time (not eye aged).

To explore the financial literacy result in more than depth, we have devised and fielded a

purpose-built module on planning and financial literacy for the 2004 Wellness and Retirement

Study (HRS), a survey that covers respondents over the age of 50 (Mitchell and Lusardi, 2006a).

This module includes questions measuring how workers fabricated saving decisions, how they

collected the information for making these decisions, and, nearly importantly, whether they

possessed the fiscal literacy needed to brand informed decisions. Our research shows that simply

one-half of the HRS respondents surveyed could answer 2 simple questions regarding involvement

compounding and aggrandizement correctly. Furthermore but ane-tertiary could correctly respond those

two questions also every bit an additional one on risk diversification. We also found that fiscal

illiteracy was particularly acute for Blacks and Hispanics, women, and those with low

educational attainment.

In related work, nosotros apply data from the 2004 HRS to evaluate whether Baby Boomers

are relatively well informed nigh financial matters (Mitchell and Lusardi 2006b). Specifically

we focus on some 1,700 Early Boomers age 51-56 in 2004. The post-obit financial literacy

questions are posed to these respondents:

1) "If the risk of getting a disease is 10 percentage, how many people out of ane,000

would exist expected to get the illness?"

ii) "If v people all have the winning number in the lottery and the prize is two

million dollars, how much will each of them go?"

For respondents who answered either the kickoff or the 2nd question correctly, the post-obit

question was asked:

three) "Let'due south say you have 200 practicellars in a savings account. The account earns 10

percent interest per year. How much would you have in the business relationship at the stop of

two years?"

We telephone call these variables, respectively, the "Percentage Calculation," the "Lottery Partition," and

the "Compound Involvement" questions. We also determine whether the respondent could be deemed

"Political Literate," by considering a question on whether he knew the names of the US President

and Vice President.

Table one summarizes how this group of Boomers answered the economical and political

literacy questions. The adept news is that over 80% got the Percentage Calculation question

correct. But only about half could dissever $two millionorth by five to get the Lottery Division right. And

more distressingly, only eighteen% correctly computed the compound involvement question; of those who

got that interest question wrong, 43% undertook a elementary involvement adding, thereby ignoring

the interest accruing on both principal and involvement. These are uncomforting findings, especially

because that these respondents are only a dozen years from retirement and, one surmises,

handled numerous financial decisions during their lives. It is also worth noting that fully one-

fifth of the sample could not proper noun either the US President or Vice President.

Farther details on financial literacy appear in Figure 1, which reports the distribution of

correct responses for respondents in unlike educational and racial/indigenous groups. For all four

measures, financial literacy rises steeply with didactics: the more educated are much more probable

to reply the economic and political literacy queries correctly. Moreover, Blacks and Hispanics

are less likely to answer correctly than Whites. There are likewise similarities across answers. For

case, all three racial/ethnic groups score over l% on the percentage calculation, just all three

score low on the chemical compound involvement question.

Our findings confirm those provided by Existrnheim (1995, 1998), who was among the first

to warn of the lack of financial literacy amid savers and investors. It also confirms studies of

smaller and more than express samples. For case, the State of Washington sponsored a survey to

assess financial literacy among its residents (Goore, 2003), and concluded that people know the

to the lowest degree nearly financial instruments. Specifically, well-nigh respondents did not know the changed

human relationship between bonds prices and interest rates. They were also uninformed nearly mutual

funds, as many did not know what a no-load mutual fund was, or that common funds do not pay a

guaranteed rate of render. More than one-3rd did not know that stocks had returned more than

bonds over the terminal xl years, and many did non know nearly risk diversification. Finally, a

large fraction of these respondents did non understand involvement rates, which was peculiarly

troublesome since a subset of the respondents had practical for loans.

Similar findings are reported by Agnew and Szykman (2005), who devised a financial

literacy survey equally part of an experiment held at a mid-size public university in the Southeast

designed in the spirit of a John Hancock Financial Services Defined Contribution Programme Survey

(2002). Their respondents produced similar patterns: college employees, tourists, parents of

students, and local construction workers, all knew piffling most mutual funds and they could not

explain even uncomplicated differences between stocks, bonds, and money marketplace mutual funds. This

enquiry also confirmed conclusions from surveys conducted by the Employee Benefit Research

Institute. For example, their survey in 1996 bear witnessed that only 55 percentage of workers knew that

United states of america government bonds provided lower returns over the past 20 years, compared to the US stock

market.

International Evidence on Financial Literacy

Evidence from outside the Us on financial literacy is no more comforting. In

2005, the ANZ Banking Group conducted an extensivdue east survey on the financial practices of

consumers in Australia and New Zealand. The Australian survey of some iii,500 randomly chosen

respondents historic period eighteen+ evaluated understanding of topics ranging from investment fundamentals,

retirement planning and financial records, to bones arithmetic. In the Financial Terms section of

the survey, 67% of respondents said they understood chemical compound interest, but a mere 28% were

rated as having a "good level" of comprehension when faced with an actual problem to solve. Every bit

in the Usa case, those with low levels of fiscal literacy also had low education and

income. This survey also confirmed the gender gap, with women concentrated in the lowest xx%

of the literacy distribution. In the New Zealand survey of respondents age eighteen+, similar results

obtained. Some 54% of respondents believed that fixed income investments would provide

college returns than stocks over an eighteen-twelvemonth period, and again financial literacy was strongly

positively correlated with socio-economic status.

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The results extend to Europe, where Miles (2004) showed that United kingdom borrowers display a

weak understanding of mortgages and interest rates. The UK Financial Services Dominance also

concluded that younger people, those in low social classes, and those with depression incomes, were the

to the lowest degree sophisticated fiscal consumers. Christelis, Jappelli, and Padula (2005) documented that

respondents in several European nations scored low on fiscal numeracy and literacy scales.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Pacific, a Japanese consumer finance survey showed

that 71% of adult respondents knew picayune about equity and bond investments, and more than fifty%

lacked whatsoever knowledge of financial products (OECD 2005). A Korean youth survey in 2000

conducted by the Jump$tart coalition showed that young Koreans fared no ameliorate than their

American counterparts when tested on economic science and finance cognition, with well-nigh receiving a

failing grade. Again, a positive correlation was detected between family unit income and pedagogy,

and the students' functioning on the fiscal literacy test (OECD, 2005).

While financial knowledge is weak, it is aland then the instance that people tend to exist more

confident in their abilities than should be warranted. For instance, a High german survey conducted by

Commerzbank AG in 2003 institute that 80% of respondents were confident in their understanding

of financial issues, but but 42% could answer half of the survey questions correctly (OECD,

2005). Similar patterns obtain in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Indeed,

consumer overconfidence regarding their financial cognition may exist a deterrent to seeking out

professional advice, thus widening the 'knowledge gap'.

Linking Financial Literacy and Economic Behavior

While the low levels of financial literacy are troubling in and of themselves,

policymakers are most concerned because of the potential implications of financial illiteracy for

economic behavior. One example is offered by Hogarth, Anguelov, and Lee (2005), who

demonstrate that low educated consumers areast disproportionately represented amongst the

"unbanked," those lacking whatever kind of transaction account.

To examine further how financial illiteracy is tied to economic behavior, we apply the 2004

HRS to connect financial knowledge to retirement planning abilities (Lusardi and Mitchell

2006b). Table 2 reveals that, for this population over the age of 50, those who are more

financially knowledgeable are also much more than likely to have thought near retirement. Further,

planners are virtually likely to know virtually of interest compounding, which makes sense inasmuch as

information technology is critical for effective saving plans. Even subsequently accounting for factors such equally education,

marital status, number of children, retirement status, race, and sex , we notwithstanding discover that fiscal

literacy plays an independent role: those who understand compound in terest and can practice a simple

lottery division are much more likely to have programned for retirement. This is important, since in

related work, we show that lack of planning is tantamount to lack of saving (Lusardi and

Mitchell, 2006a; Lusardi, 1999).

Other authors have likewise confirmed the positive association between knowledge and

fiscal behavior. For example, Calvert, Campbell, and Sodini (2005) find that more than financially

sophisticated households are more than probable to buy risky avails and invest more than efficiently. Kimball

and Shumway (2006) report a large positive correlation between financial sophistication and

portfolio choice. Hilgerth, Hogarth, and Beverly (2003) as well certificate a positive link between

fiscal noesis and financial beliefs.

Campbell (2006) has highlighted how household mortgage decisions, particularly the

refinancing of stock-still-rate mortgages, should be understood in the larger context of 'investment

mistakes' and their relation to consumers' financial knowledge. This is a particularly of import

topic, given that near United states of america families are homeowners and many have mortgages. The sad reality is

that many households are confused about the terms of their mortgages. Campbell (2006) also

finds that younger, smaller, better-educated, better-off White consumers with more than expensive

houses were more likely to refinance their mortgages over theastward 2001-2003 period when interest

rates were falling. His findings are confirmed by Bucks and Pence (2006), who examine whether

homeowners know the value of their habitation equity and the terms of their dwelling house mortgages. They

show that many borrowers underestimate the corporeality by which their involvement rates tin change and

that depression-income, low-educated households are least knowledgeable well-nigh the details of their

mortgages (especially those with adjustable rate mortgages). Further testify of biases is

provided by Stango and Zinman (2006) who well document the systematic tendency of people to

underestimate the interest rate associated with a stream of loan payments. The consequences of

this bias are important: those who underestimate the almanac percent rate (APR) on a loan are

more than probable to infringe and less likely to save.

Consumers are not only poorly informed about mortgages or incorrect about interest

rates, but they know niggling nigh Social Security and pensions, 2 of the well-nigh important

components of retirement wealth. Close to half of workers in the HRS sample analyzed by

Gustman and Steinmeier (2004) could not report their type of pension plan, and an fifty-fifty larger

portion was ignorant of hereafter Social Security benefits, confirming earlier findings from Mitchell

(1988). There is mounting prove that noesis about pensions and Social Security affects

retirement decisions (Chan and Huff Stevens (2003) and Mastrobuoni (2005)).

Programs Aimed at Fostering Retirement Saving

Responding to reports of widespread fiscal illiteracy and workers' undersaving, some

employers have begun to offer employees with financial education in the workplace. For

case, retirement seminars are oft provided by firms which offering defined contribution

pensions (DC) in order to heighten employee interest in and willingness to participate in these

voluntary saving programs. Whether such programs have an impact is, of form, a key question.

The thought is that if seminars provide financial data and meliorate fiscal literacy,

they should reduce workers' planning costs and thus heighten reti rement saving. Yet information technology is difficult

to evaluate the impact of such retirement seminars for several reasons. One is that participation

in these seminars is generally voluntary, so workers who attend them probably differ from those

who do non (for instance, they may have more retirement wealth and thus, stand to benefit

differently from seminars than depression wealth workers). Another is that workers who participate in a

retirement seminar may also be more patient or diligent, personal characteristics associated with

higher wealth aggregating. Third, as noted by Bernheim and Garrett (2003), employers may

offer retirement educational activity every bit a remedial device, when they perceive workers to be undersaving.

This leads to a negative rather than positive correlation between seminars and seminars. These

complexities take meant that few researchers take been able to sort out the effects of seminars

cleanly, and empirical findings are mixed.two

Fortunately, the HRS can overcome some of thursdayese data challenges. For instance, Lusardi

(2002, 2004) posits that if financiafifty education is offered to those who need it most, the saving

impacts would be strongest among the least educated and least wealthy. Equally shown in Table 3, the

HRS information bear this out: retirement seminars are found to have a positive wealth issue mainly in

the lower half of the wealth distribution and particularly for the least educated. Estimated effects

2 See, among others, McCarthy and Turner (1996), Bernheim (1995, 1998), Bayer, Bernheim and Scholz (1996),

Clark and Schieber (1998), Muller (2000), Clark and D'Ambrosio (200ii), Clark, D'Ambrosio, McDermed and

Sawant (2003) and Bernheim and Garrett (2003).

are sizable, particularly for the least wealthy, for whom attending seminars appears to increase

financial wealth (a measure of retirement savings which excludes housing equity) by

approximately 18%. This outcome derives mainly from the very poorest, where wealth increased by

more 70%. The effect of financial education is also large for those with low teaching,

where financial wealth rose virtually 100%. Of grade these large percent changes are

measured off a depression base, of only nigh $2000 (Lusardi, 2004). Other authors have as well suggested

that financial educational activity can be effective when targeted at the to the lowest degree well off. For instance, Caskey

(2006) finds that personal financial management education has positive impacts on the wealth

and credit patterns of low- and moderate-income households.

Yet even when the impacts piece of work in the predicted management, they can be rather small in

dollar terms. Thus Duflo and Saez (2003; 2004) focus on non-kinesthesia employees at a large

university who where given financial incentives to participate in an employee benefits fair. The

authors compared pension participation and contributions in that grouping with that of employees

non induced to participate. Overall, they found that the program had adequately small effects:

attention the fair did induce more employees to participate in the pension, but the increase in

contributions was negligible. And good intentions exercise not e'er interpret into desired beliefs.

For instance, Clark and D'Ambrosio (2002) and Clark, D'Ambosio, McDermed and Sawant

(2003) report that exposing workers to retirement seminars does influence workers stated desire

to save more. Yet several authors, including Choi, Laibson, Madrian and Metrick (2004) and

Madrian and Shea (2001), show that seminar participants who say they will start contributing to

pensions or boost their contributions frequently neglect to exercise so, in practice.

Further findings on the impact of financial education programs are available from

Schreiner, Clancy, and Sheraddedue north (2002). That projection studied the effectiveness of Individual

Development Accounts (IDAs), which are subsidized savings accounts targeted on the poor that

provide matching contributions if the balance is used for a specific purpose (e.thou. home purchase,

starting a business, etc.). As office of the American Dream Demonstration, that study included

ii,364 participants (in 2001) age thirteen-72, of whom 80% were female person. The project had a financial

education component, and the authors found that those with no financial education saved less

than those exposed to the educational program. But the issue was nonlinear: later on 8–ten hours of

financial education, the result tapered off with no appreciable additional increases in saving later

that.

Historical Evidence and Privatization Episodes

There are historical precedents for a governmental office in the pattern and implementation

of programs aimed at increasing saving. For example later WWII, the Japanese government

sought to build a saving culture among its citizens. Accordingly information technology launched a national campaign

to promote saving (Bernheim,1991), with public interest agencies including the Primal Council

of Savings Promotion and media dissemination techniques (leaflets and booklets, posters,

advertisements, films, magazines etc) to instill "values of conservatism and frugality" in the

Japanese population. This campaign built on the Japanese bonus or lump sum organization (almost

16% of employee bounty during the 1950s came from these bonuses), and information technology led fiscal

institutions to court savers aggressively at bonus fourth dimension with ad campaigns and new

financial instruments. Nigh households fabricated it a rule to save half of their almanac bonus, and

Bernheim (1991) argues that this initiative may have played a part in Nippon'southward high saving rate

over the concluding several decades.

Authorities interest in fiscal education programs has too become of import in

light of many country pension reforms. For example, Sweden recently implemented an individual

defined contribution individual account scheme as part of its social security system, giving

workers responsible for investing function of their retirement money in capital markets. Contributors

had to select from approximately 460 fund companies; the number of funds then burgeoned to

more than 650 by 2004 (Sunden, 2004). The government as well established a 'default' program for

participants who did not wish to make an active investment choice. Initially, to inform and

educate the population almost the new alimony system, the National Social Insurance Lath

launched a major information campaign, and over two-thirds of participants fabricated an agile

investment choice. But after the educational effort declined and the fraction making an

active investment ballot fell to but about x% of participants.

Another land pension reform which has required workers to make fiscal decisions is

the much-vaunted individual account system in Republic of chile, where a national mandatory defined

contribution organization was implemented in 1981. Workers must select a unmarried alimony

administrator to manage their money, and within that construction, they tin besides choose which of

v accounts they will hold their money in. Despite the fact that the system has been in place for

25 years, recent research using the Encuesta de Previsión Social (EPS) shows that participants

are woefully underinformed almost their pension system (Arenas et al., 2006). For case, most

Chilean workers do non know what they are required to contribute nether the system, how much

they pay in commissions, what the rules are for minimum guaranteed pensions, or how their

funds are invested. Two-thirds of the system affiliates said they received reports on contributions

and projected future benefits, but very few could give critical details such equally the revenue enhancement rates and

fees they pay on the investments. About participants also did not know their fund balances, details

regarding how their money was invested, or the eligibility rules for a minimum pension. Every bit in

other cases, lack of knowledge is concentrated among those with poorer backgrounds, less

education, and women. The analysts as well compared workers' self-reports with administrative

data on bodily balances and contributions, and they find that levels of pension system knowledge

are lowest amongst workers simply highest amid retirees; two-thirds of beneficiaries knew what

kind of pension they were receiving, and most the same fraction knew their do good amount. In

general, those who knew their pension amounts were those receiving higher benefits. It is

interesting that the more knowledgeable participants are also more likely to save additional

amounts via a voluntary savings vehicle, underscoring the link between fiscal literacy and

retirement saving beliefs. One explanation for the low levels of fiscal literacy in the

Chilean case is that the nation's pension reform was initially adopted during a dictatorship and

little effort was devoted to raising awareness about the system. Most recently, the new

President'south reform commission has proposed that the government create a pension teaching

plan to promote, spread, and teach workers about the need to salvage and invest for retirement

(Consejo, 2006).

Final Remarks

Financial literacy surveys in many developed nations show that consumers are poorly

informed about financial products and practices. This is troubling, in that fiscal illiteracy may

stunt peoples' power to save and invest for retirement, undermining their well-being in one-time age.

It is likewise concerning that these deficiencies are concentrated amidst detail population

subgroups – those with low income and low education, minorities, and women – where being

financially illiterate may render them nigh vulnerable to economic hardship in retirement.

While more is being learned about the causes and consequences of fiscal illiteracy, it

is nonetheless the case that i must be cautious when concluding that financial education has a strong

effect on retirement saving. First, a small fraction of workers ever attend retirement seminars, and then

many are left untouched by this initiative.3 Second, widespread financial illiteracy will not be

"cured" by a onetime benefit fair or a single lecture on fiscal economics. This is not because

financial education is ineffective, but rather that the "cure" is inadequate for the trouble. Third,

the finding that people take difficulty following through on planned actions suggests that

education alone many non be sufficient. Rather, it is important to requite consumers the tools to

change their behaviors, rather than but delivering financial education. Fourth, people differ

widely in their degree of financial literacy and saving patterns are very diverse (Browning and

Lusardi, 1996). Accordingly, a "one-size-fits-all" education program will do piddling to stimulate

saving and could even be a disincentive to participate in a fiscal literacy attempt. For case,

in the Washington Financial Literacy survey, most respondents stated that they would prefer

personalized ways to learn how to manage goney, rather than attend information sessions

(Moore 2003).

Evidently, consumers require boosted support for quondam-age retirement planning and

saving. Also, educational activity programs will be virtually effective if they are targeted to detail

population subgroups, so every bit to address differences in saving needs and in preferences. As former-age

dependency ratios rise across the developed world, and every bit government-run pay-as-you-go social

security programs increasingly face insolvency, these issues volition become increasingly

important. So the crucial claiming is to better equip a wide range of households with the

3 For example, in the sample used past Lusardi (2004) only thirteen% of older workers have e'er attended a seminar

offered by their employer.

financial literacy toolbox they require, then they tin can built better build retirement plans and execute

them.

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Table ane: Financial Literacy Among Early Babe Boomers

(HRS observations = 1,984)

Question Type Correct (%) Wrong (%) Do Not Know (%)

Percentage

Calculation 83.5 xiii.2 ii.8

Lottery

Division 55.ix 34.4 viii.7

Chemical compound

Interest* 17.8 78.5 3.2

Political

Literacy 81.1 11.0 7.vii

Notes: *Conditional on being asked the question. Percentages may non sum to 100 due to a few respondents who

refused to answer the questions. Observations weighted using HRS household weights. Adapted from Lusardi and

Mitchell (2006b).

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Tabular array ii: Empirical Effects of Financial Literacy on Retirement Planning

Marginal Effects Reported (HRS observations = one,716)

Probability of Being a Retirement Planner

1 ii three

Correct Percentage Calculation

-.016

(.061) -.012

(.062) -.034

(.060)

Correct Lottery Division

.059*

(.030) .034

(.031) .001

(.032)

Right Compound Interest

.153***

(.035) .149***

(.035) .114***

(.039)

Right Political Literacy

.104***

(.032) .084**

(.040) .016

(.042)

DK Percentage Adding

.021

(.068) .054

(.067)

DK Lottery Sectionalization

-.154***

(.050) -.141***

(.051)

DK Compound Interest

-.114

(.080) -.073

(.081)

DK Political Literacy

-.019

(.053) -.016

(.054)

Demographic controls No No Aye

Pseudo R2 .031 .038 .074

Note: This tabular array reports Probit estimates of the effects of literacy on planning; marginal effects reported. Assay

sample consists of HRS Early Babe Boomers who responded to fiscal literacy questions. Additional controls

include age, instruction, race, sex, marital status, retirement status, number of children, and a dummy variable for

those not asked the question nearly interest compounding. DK indicates respondent said he could non answer.

Observations weighted using HRS household weights. * Meaning at x%; ** significant at 5%; *** pregnant at

1%. Adapted from Lusardi and Mitchell (2006b).

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Tabular array 3: The Effect of Retirement Seminars on Retirement Accumulation

Total sample 1st quartile median 3rd quartile

a. Financial internet worth

Total sample 17.6 %** 78.7%** 32.8%** ten.0%

Depression educational activity xix.5% 95.ii%** 30.0%** 8.eight%

High pedagogy xiii.one% 70.0%** 19.four%** ten.two%

b. Total internet worth

Total sample five.vii% 29.ii%** 8.7% 0.5%

Depression education 3.4% 27.0%** vii.ane% iv.0%

High education seven.3% 26.5%** 6.five% 3.vi%

c. Total net worth +

Pensions

Total sample 20.5%** 32.vii%** 26.8%** 19.5%**

Low education 20.7%** 31.4%** 14.6%* 18.ii%**

High teaching xix.4%** 39.3%** 31.2%** 17.6%**

d. Total net worth +

Pensions and Social

Security

Total sample 16.0%** xviii.6%** twenty.iv%** 17.2%**

Low education 12.7%** fourteen.7%** 12.7%** nine.5%**

High instruction 17.seven%** 25.4%** 25.8%** 17.0%**

Note: This table reports the percentage changes in different measures of retirement accumulation resulting

from attending retirement seminars. Adapted from Lusardi (2004)50.

* indicates that the estimates from which percentages are based are statistically significant at the 10% level

** indicates that the estimates from which percentages are based are statistically significant at the 5% level

Figure 1: Fiscal Literacy by Education and Race/Ethnicity: Early Infant Boomers (2004)

0.ii

0.4

0.6

0.viii

one

Percentage

Calculation Lottery Division Compound Interest Politicoitical Literacy

Proportion of Subgroup

Less than Hullogh School High Schoolhouse Somdue east College College or Chiliadore

0.2

0.four

0.6

0.viii

ane

Percentage

Calculation Lottery Division Compounited nationsd Interest Polinformation technologyical Literacy

Proportion of Subgroup

White Black Hispanic

Annotation: Observations weighted using HRS household weights. Source : Lusardi and Mitchell (2006b).

... Existing research indicates that fiscal literacy correlates with financial outcomes in both the short and long terms (Hastings, Madrian, and Skimmyhorn 2013). Financially literate consumers invest more frequently in the stock market place and engage more frequently in retirement planning, leading to increased wealth accumulation (Lusardi and Mitchell 2007; van Rooij, Lusardi, andAlessie 2011, 2012). In dissimilarity, depression fiscal literacy is correlated with disadvantageous financial behaviours and outcomes such as high-cost borrowing and debt aggregating (Lusardi and Tufano 2015;Pak 2018;Sevim, Temizel, and Sayılır 2012). ...

... Financial literacy is linked to economical behaviour. There is, for instance, a positive relationship between financial literacy and planning for retirement [73]. Fiscal literacy is measured via the OECD scale of financial literacy [72]. ...

Many people do not possess the necessary savings to deal with unexpected financial events. People'southward biases play a pregnant role in their ability to forecast future fiscal shocks: they are typically over-optimistic, present-oriented, and generally underestimate hereafter expenses. The purpose of this study is to investigate how varying take chances data influences people's financial awareness, in social club to reduce the hazard of a fiscal downfall. Specifically, we contribute to the literature by exploring the concept of 'nudging' and its value for behavioural changes in personal financial management. While of bang-up practical importance, the role of nudging in behavioural financial forecasting enquiry is scarce. Additionally, the study steers abroad from the standard default choice compages nudge, and adds originality by focusing on eliciting implementation intentions and precommitment strategies as types of nudges. Our experimental scenarios examined how people modify their financial projections in response to nudges in the course of new information on relevant risks. Participants were asked to forecast future expenses and future savings. They then received information on potential events identified as high-risk, low-gamble or no-take a chance. We investigated whether they adjusted their predictions in response to diverse risk scenarios or not and how such potential adjustments were afflicted by the data given. Our findings suggest that the provision of take chances information alters financial forecasting behaviour. Notably, we found an adjustment upshot even in the no-risk category, suggesting that governments and institutions concerned with financial behaviour tin can increment fiscal awareness only by increasing salience about possible financial risks. Another practical implication relates to splitting savings into different categories, and past using different wordings: A financial advisory institution can assist people in their fiscal behaviour past focusing on 'targets', and by encouraging (nudging) people to make breakdown forecasts rather than general ones.

... Financial literacy, according to Kim (2001), is a cardinal skill that people require in order to thrive in today'south business and gild. Lusardi and Mitchell (2007) come across financial literacy every bit being informed about all aspects of savings, investments, and decumulation in the context of everyday fiscal decisions, whereas Stone et al. (2008) defined fiscal literacy as having a basic understanding of how to finer manage debt. Therefore, financial literacy is the ability to make sound financial decisions (Novo, 2012). ...

The poor performance of female entrepreneurs, exemplified in their disability to realize their full potential and compete adequately with their male person counterparts owing to financial illiteracy, motivated this study. Therefore, this study examined the consequence of fiscal literacy on business performance amid female micro-entrepreneurs. Using the survey research design, information were collected from 247 female entrepreneurs from six states in the Due north-Eastern region of Nigeria. The hypotheses developed for the study were tested using path modeling-structural equation modeling with the assistance of SmartPLS software version iii.2.7. The effect revealed that all proxies of financial literacy (financial education, cash forecasting, and bookkeeping have pregnant effects on business organisation performance of female person entrepreneurs. Additionally, the paper revealed that fiscal education contributed more to the variance in business organization operation of the female micro-entrepreneurs, this was followed by bookkeeping practices, while cash-forecasting has the least effect on the variance in business functioning. This implies that financial education is essential for the success of female micro-entrepreneurs. Thus, this study advocates the need for continuing trainings and workshops for female micro-entrepreneurs on financial concepts such every bit accounting, greenbacks forecasting, and market volatilities.

... School teaches children bones financial concepts to enable them to appoint in financial decision-making and improve their financial literacy Nguyen, 2013;Yates & Ward, 2011). Finance literacy is cultivated through financial awareness Lusardi & Michell, 2007;Moore, 2003). People who are inexperienced with fiscal products and services are discouraged from making financial purchases (Mouna & Anis, 2016). ...

David Cababaro Bueno
Trixia Marithe B. Vergara
Edmundo Jose Banagan

Over the past several decades, financial direction has been critical to the global economy. Financial literacy has long been regarded as a necessary skill that enables individuals to make better informed fiscal choices in an increasingly complicated and sophisticated financial environment. The objective of this study was to determine the factors influencing financial literacy amid graduate students and professionals using a descriptive cantankerous-sectional survey methodology with a sample size of 135 (xxx per centum). The results showed that previous financial noesis aided participants in making sound economic decisions. In that location was much information bachelor regarding retirement plans, investment accounts, insurance policies, and credit cards. They have a promising financial future, and their parents/family members had an essential office in their fiscal literacy growth. Peer pressure was found to play a office in their financial literacy. In terms of saving and spending, the participants were prudent and financially knowledgeable. They fabricated comparisons between each expenditure/buy. They excelled in debt management, planning with sufficient liquid funds, and financing large expenditures. They thought that all aspects of life, including health and belongings, should be covered and safeguarded. They were likewise financially savvy in terms of saving and investing, as well as estate planning. Financial literacy was shown to accept a small-scale relationship with financial skills, familial influence, and peer pressure level. On the other manus, in that location was a slight link betwixt participants' fiscal views and financial literacy. Thus, the research suggests that comparable studies be conducted on individuals who offer financial instruction to determine if at that place is a connection between fiscal literacy and individual fiscal behavior.

Kshipra Jain

Research on measurement of fiscal literacy and its implications have increased in contempo years; notwithstanding, being focused on vulnerable population sub-group the studies have ignored the meliorate-off section. To attain a sustainable financial system, financial literacy must reach all including educated ones who can likewise be its provider. Teachers, existence one such group can deed as a channel between banks and students; however, it is imperative to quantify effect of education on fiscal literacy. Hence, the study based on primary data collected from employees of the University of Rajasthan, India aims at: measuring fiscal literacy and quantifying the outcome of teaching. The results using Quantile regression estimates reveal positive upshot of education on financial literacy declines with its improving score. It mandates the need for exclusive financial training programs to move from low to high level even for highly qualified teachers. Also, educated groups are non insulated from lack of financial literacy though they exercise take a basic understanding of financial concepts and hence tin easily move up the ladder as well every bit pass on the information to their students. Considering the facilitator role of instruction, special programs oriented towards the better-off section peculiarly teachers should be designed.

The present article examines (i) the dimensions of fiscal literacy and (ii) financial literacy as a second-order (higher order) factor measuring retirement financial planning of working individuals in the metropolis of Delhi. The study incorporated cantankerous-sectional data of working individuals (N = 538) from different public/private sector organisations in Delhi & NCR. For data collection, a well-designed online questionnaire was framed on a 5-point Likert calibration and data were analysed using the AMOS (version 20) software using structural equation modelling approach (SEM). The results of the written report showcased that when dimensions of financial literacy modelled directly with retirement fiscal planning (RFP), only financial knowledge, financial behaviour, and fiscal attitude are significantly associated with RFP, whereas financial sensation is non found to be associated in a significant manner. However, when financial literacy modelled every bit a second-club (college order) gene with RFP, the results showed a pregnant association with RFP. Thus, fiscal literacy equally a 2d order is the preferred model.

Monique M. H. Pollmann

At that place are many households with fiscal problems, but most research on financial management is restricted to individual effects, not taking into account the human relationship these individuals are in. The electric current investigation tests whether a person'south attachment style predicts how comfy they are talking near fiscal issues with their partner and how that relates to different financial result variables. Two cantankerous-exclusive survey studies in the Netherlands and the U.s., each with more than 100 participants show that a higher score on broken-hearted attachment is related to less communication nearly money with one's partner. Less financial communication is related to worse financial management within the couple, which in turn predicts conflicts about money. A third survey with 770 participants shows that less fiscal communication is related to more than financial problems. These findings highlight the need to accept human relationship variables into account to understand financial processes in couples.

Vishaal Baulkaran

Given the increasing complexities of the financial markets every bit well as a shift abroad from employer/regime sponsored pensions to individuals managing their retirement funds, personal finance didactics is an important tool in order to navigate the evolving and complex financial environment. In this paper, I examine the affect of personal finance education on credit delinquency. Prior studies show that financial literacy affects fiscal decisions such every bit savings, retirement planning, wealth accumulation and stock market place participation. Using U.South data on personal bankruptcy and consumer credit delinquency rates, I show that personal finance education is important in reducing personal bankruptcy likewise as consumer credit malversation rates. Furthermore, personal finance education does non appear to moderate the impact of gambling legislation on personal bankruptcy or consumer credit default.

The concept of financial literacy is of vital importance both for the individual and the economic system as a whole. The chapter analyses the different components of financial literacy from the Indian perspective. It is an effort to throw light and carry out a comparative analysis between the financial acumen of working and non-working Indian women. The results of the study may serve as important inputs to the policy makers to develop strategies to enhance financial literacy amid Indian women in item and thereby help in nation building.

Alan Gustman
Thomas 50. Steinmeier

The role of employer-provided pensions and Social Security in shaping employees' retirement and saving behavior has attracted an enormous amount of attending from both researchers and policymakers over the past xx-5 years.1 In the research literature, the almost universal assumption is that workers are fully informed nigh the rules governing their employer- and authorities-provided pensions. However, to the limited extent that researchers have been able to test that supposition, results suggest that workers are less than fully informed (Bernheim 1988, Mitchell 1988, Gustman and Steinmeier 1989) and that providing data tin touch on their behavior (Clark and Schieber 1998; Bayer, Bernheim, and Scholz 1996; Bernheim and Garrett 1996; Madrian and Shea 2000). Despite a full general lack of enquiry on the part of data in retirement planning, policymakers have made information a central event. The Social Security Administration (SSA), for case, recently began to mail service workers statements of their accrued and projected benefits to improve their ability to plan for retirement; the SSA likewise has made a retirement planner available on its website. The U.S. Department of Labor has initiated several programs to examine the extent of workers' lack of information and to meliorate their noesis of pensions and of saving for retirement in full general. Post-obit the 1997 Savings Are Vital to Everyone's Retirement (SAVER) Human activity, the National Pinnacle on Retirement Savings, held in 1998, emphasized the demand to educate the public most retirement planning through media campaigns and other ways. In 2000 the Department of Labor historic the fifth anniversary of its Retirement Savings Instruction Campaign. And contempo legislative proposals by Representative John Boehner of Ohio (HR 4747, 4748, and 4749) would significantly aggrandize the scope of investment advice that employers are permitted to offer their employees. This chapter provides a comprehensive analysis of what workers (don't) know about their pensions and Social Security. This analysis is based on information from the Health and Retirement Study, described beneath. Relative to previous findings and current policy issues, the paper provides five key sets of data. First, it uses more recent data than previous studies. This is important because of the significant changes in the pension universe and in Social Security that have occurred over the terminal 15 years. 2d, the paper focuses on the distribution of differences between respondents' reports of requested information and linked reports obtained from records provided by the Social Security Administration or from detailed pension plan descriptions obtained from firms, examining the patterns of discrepancies at the level of the individual respondent more than than did previous studies. 3rd, the newspaper examines the furnishings of poor information on economic beliefs in order to assess the potential benefits of providing better information. Fourth, to improve understanding of misreporting and to provide a foundation for imputing pension and Social Security outcomes when data are not bachelor, the analysis explores whether the differences between the cases that have linked Social Security and pension records and those that do not are related to demographic or other measures. Fifth, the appendix provides information of use to researchers, including an analysis of the relation betwixt respondent-reported earnings histories and linked earnings histories from Social Security records. It also includes a fix of equations that researchers can employ to impute pension characteristics and plan values for cases without employer-provided pension plan descriptions and for researchers who do not take admission to linked pension data. Our findings suggest that workers budgeted retirement possess a great deal of misinformation near their pensions. Half of respondents with linked pension data correctly identified their programme type, only fewer than one-half could place, within 1 year, the dates of their eligibility for early and normal retirement benefits. Co-ordinate to the firm-provided data, two-thirds of respondents would be eligible to retire by the time they reached historic period 55; nevertheless, less than half of respondents were aware that they were eligible. Those who were inside iii years of retiring forecast somewhat more accurately simply did not practise a much amend task of forecasting their historic period of eligibility for early on retirement than the sample equally a whole. Lxxx pct of respondents with a defined do good plan either did not think that they were eligible for early retirement or did non know the do good reduction rate for their plan. Respondents did better in reporting the value of their alimony than their age of eligibility, just the unexplained variation is still considerable. Only half of the respondents ventured to guess their expected Social Security benefits, and only half of those came within $1,500 of the bodily almanac corporeality. On the whole, respondents were somewhat pessimistic in evaluating their defined do good pensions, in contrast to findings from earlier studies. Respondents' and firms' calculations of alimony benefit amounts were in rough agreement in just xl percent of the cases. A preliminary analysis of how knowledge of Social Security and pension benefits affects retirement expectations, realization of those expectations, and wealth accumulation reveals complex relationships. Because it is easier to adjust saving downwards than upward as one approaches retirement, even symmetric errors in expectations should bear upon retirement and saving outcomes. All the same respondents' lack of knowledge near Social Security and alimony wealth and their inability to place their program type had but modest effects on retirement plans, on whether those plans were met, and on saving outcomes. Although researchers would like to work with the true value of pensions and Social Security benefits, in many surveys only respondents' reports were available. Our findings show that respondents' reports and other information about the respondents deemed for 80 per centum of the variation in linked employerreported alimony values and that respondent-reported work histories and other explanatory variables accounted for 75 percentage of the variation in earnings obtained from linked Social Security records. Thus prospects are skillful for imputing pension and Social Security values, although they are not good for imputing the timing or size of incentives for early retirement. Implications for policy depend to an of import degree on two considerations: the precise behavioral channels through which misinformation affects retirement and saving and whether increased educational efforts affect behavior and planning in a timely manner. All the same, there is little information on which to base of operations an answer to either question.

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD

This book, the first major study of financial education at the international level, contributes to the development of consumer financial literacy by providing information to policy makers on effective financial didactics programmes and by promoting the commutation of views and the sharing of experience in the field of fiscal didactics and awareness. Information technology identifies and analyses fiscal literacy surveys in member countries, highlights the economic, demographic and policy changes that brand financial education increasingly important, and describes the different types of financial didactics programmes currently being offered in OECD countries. Finally, this book evaluates the effectiveness of fiscal instruction programmes and introduces the OECD Council Recommendation on Principals and Good Practices for Financial Teaching and Sensation.

Michael B. Katz
Michael Sherraden

Every bit revolution swept over Russia and empires collapsed in the final days of World War I, Azerbaijan and neighbouring Georgia and Armenia proclaimed their independence in May 1918. During the ensuing ii years of ceremonious war, war machine endgames, and treaty negotiations, the diplomatic representatives of Azerbaijan struggled to gain international recognition and favourable resolution of territorial disputes. This brief but eventful episode came to an end when the Red Army entered Baku in late Apr 1920. Drawing on contemporary records, memoirs, and scholarship in many languages, the accomplished historian Jamil Hasanli has produced a comprehensive and meticulously documented account of this piffling-known period

This affiliate examines sex differences in retirement goals and responses to fiscal didactics seminars. Gender differences were observed in terms of desired retirement historic period, and savings and investment choices. Financial education seminars alter individual retirement objectives, with participants likely to enhance their income objectives later on the seminar. © Alimony Inquiry Council, The Wharton Schoolhouse, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. All rights reserved.

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