Financial Literacy: What Works? How Could it be More Effective?

By William G. Gale, R. Levine. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Financial Knowledge and Short-Term and Long-Term Financial Behaviors of Millennials in the United States (2018, background): “Although Gale and Levine (2011) suggested financial education could improve financial outcomes through a review of non-experimental evidence, Hastings et al. (2013) and Fernandes et al. (2014) indicated that unobserved characteristics about individuals who participate in financial education, in the…”
Consumer financial education and financial capability (2016, background): “Gale and Levine (2011) reviewed the effectiveness of previous efforts to promote financial literacy and concluded that none of the four traditional approaches to financial literacy-employer-based, school-based, credit counseling, or community-based-has generated strong evidence that financial…”
FINANCIAL LITERACY, FINANCIAL EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES (2012, unknown): “Although the most recent reviews and meta-analyses of the nonexperimental evidence (Collins et al. 2009, Gale & Levine 2011) suggest that financial literacy can improve financial behavior, these reviews do not appear to fully discount nonexperimental research and its limitations for causal…”
THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY IN THE CONTEXT OF FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE (2015, background): “One critique is that these private online approaches do not focus on financial information or numeracy (Gale & Levine, 2010).”
Financial Literacy and Credit Card Behaviors: A Cross-Sectional Analysis by Age (2013, background): “This interest in financial literacy has spawned extensive research on how financial literacy influences decision making and improves the financial capability of adults (e.g., Braunstein and Welch 2002; Hilgert et al. 2003; Lusardi and Mitchell 2007; Gale and Levine 2011; Hastings et al. 2012).”
A review of financial-literacy education programs for children and adolescents (2018, background): “Other reviews focus primarily on financial education among adults (Fox et al., 2005; Gale and Levine, 2011; Hastings et al., 2013; Hathaway and Khatiwada, 2008).”