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Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior: A randomized educational intervention

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Sutter,  Matthias
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Max Planck Society;

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Untertrifaller,  Anna
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Max Planck Society;

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Froitzheim,  Manuel
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Max Planck Society;

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Schneider,  Sebastian O.
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Max Planck Society;

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Sutter, M., Weyland, M., Untertrifaller, A., Froitzheim, M., & Schneider, S. O. (2023). Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior: A randomized educational intervention.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-10A6-5
Abstract
We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial literacy has significant short-term and longer-term effects on risk and time preferences. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects more patient, less present-biased, and slightly more risk-averse. Our finding that the intervention changes economic preferences contributes to a better understanding of why financial literacy has been shown to correlate systematically with financial behavior in previous studies. We argue that the link between financial literacy and field behavior works through economic preferences. In our study, the latter are also related in a meaningful way to students’ field behavior.