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Banks information policies, financial literacy and household wealth

Fort, Margherita; Manaresi, Francesco; Trucchi, Serena - 2012

. We show that these policies have a positive and significant effect on both knowledge of financial instruments and …

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Who Cares about Investing Responsibly? Attitudes and Financial Decisions

Montagnoli, Alberto; Taylor, Karl - 2024

The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we investigate the determinants of individual's attitudes towards investing responsibly, based upon Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations. Secondly, we look at how important ESG considerations are, over and above socio-economic...

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Banks Information Policies, Financial Literacy and Household Wealth

Fort, Margherita; Manaresi, Francesco; Trucchi, Serena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

. We show that these policies have a positive and significant effect on both knowledge of financial instruments and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959735

Discounting financial literacy: time preferences and participation in financial education programs

Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2008

Many policy makers and economists argue that financial literacy is key to financial well-being. But why do many individuals remain financially illiterate despite the apparent importance of being financially informed? This paper presents results of a field study linking individual decisions to...

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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: Evidence from within-teacher within-student variation

Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within …

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Parental Education and Child?s Education : A Natural Experiment

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2004

target children at risk of not maximising their educational potential, the estimates are of interest. Contrary to recent … evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children?s schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children?s education. In most cases, the endogeneity of …

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Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach

Björklund, Anders; Sundström, Marianne - 2002

This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and...

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The origins of intergenerational associations: lessons from Swedish adoption data

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2005

We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents...

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The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of Their Children

Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - 2005

This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age. Least squares estimation reveals conventional...

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Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance

Hotz, V. Joseph; Pantano, Juan - 2013

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in … later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting. …

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