Financial literacy, financial education, and downstream financial behaviors

Management Science

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1861-1883

  Fernandes, Daniel ^a,b   Lynch Jr , John G ^c   Netemeyer, Richard G ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CATÓLICA LISBON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Causal effects; Consumer behavior; Design of experiments; Education systems; Financial education; Financial literacy; Government programs; Household finance; Meta analysis; Public policy; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EDUCATION; PUBLIC POLICY; STATISTICS;

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; CAUSAL EFFECTS; EDUCATION SYSTEMS; FINANCIAL EDUCATION; FINANCIAL LITERACY; GOVERNMENT PROJECTS; META-ANALYSIS;

FINANCE;

EID: 84898685758     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2013.1849     Document Type: Article

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