Financial Literacy, Annamaria Lusardi
Financial Literacy, Annamaria Lusardi
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Financial Literacy
Implications for Retirement Security and the Financial Marketplace

Author: Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell

Narrator: Kitty Hendrix

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/02/2019


Synopsis

As financial markets grow ever more complex and integrated, households must make increasingly sophisticated and all-too-often irreversible economic decisions. This is particularly evident in retirement decision-making. Traditional defined benefit pension schemes are being replaced with defined contribution pensions; employer and government judgment regarding how much to save and where to invest has been replaced by employees having to make these choices on their own (sometimes assisted by advisers); and retirees have become responsible for managing their own pension assets.

This volume explores how financial literacy can enhance peoples' ability to make informed economic choices. It proposes that financial literacy determines how well people make and execute saving, investing, borrowing, and planning decisions. It examines causality using controlled settings to disentangle whether financial literacy causes saving or vice versa, and demonstrates that financial education programs do indeed enhance financial decision-making and asset accumulation.

About Annamaria Lusardi

Annamaria Lusardi has taught at Dartmouth College, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy and Booth School of Business. She is the Director of the new Financial Literacy Center, a joint consortium with the Rand Corporation, Dartmouth College, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, with the support of the Social Security Administration. She received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brennan

Dry. This book would be best for wealth managers, but not necessarily policymakers. The book even has a line referring to how behavioral financial interventions are more effective than education.......more