Making Savers Winners: An Overview of Prize-Linked Saving Products

Financial Literacy: Implications for Retirement Security and the Financial Marketplace

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kearney, Melissa S ^a,b   Tufano, Peter ^c   Guryan, Jonathan ^b,d   Hurst, Erik ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounts; Gambling; Households; Income; Investment; Lottery; Prize; Products; Saving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907534866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696819.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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