Selection into Financial Education and Effects on Portfolio Choice / Irina Gemmo, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Olivia S. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gemmo, Irina.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Michaud, Pierre-Carl.

Mitchell, Olivia S.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31682.

NBER working paper series no. w31682

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.

Summary:

To examine how financial education affects financial outcomes, one must evaluate whether and how sample selection may bias inferences regarding program impacts. Our incentivized experiment reveals how such selection influences estimated financial education effects. The more financially literate and those expecting higher gains pay more to purchase education, while those who consider themselves very financially literate pay less. Using portfolio allocation tasks, we show that the financial education increases portfolio efficiency and welfare by almost 20 and 3 percentage points, respectively. In our setting, selection does not greatly influence estimated program effects, comparing those participating and those who do not.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2023.