• Financial Education for the Disadvantaged? A Review 

      Entorf, Horst; Hou, Jia (2018-04-20)
      In contrast to the popularity of financial education interventions worldwide, studies on the economic effects of those interventions report mixed results. With a focus on the effect on disadvantaged groups, we review both ...
    • Financial Literacy and Socialist Education: Lessons from the German Reunification 

      Davoli, Maddalena; Hou, Jia (2018-07-01)
      A growing body of literature shows the importance of financial literacy in households' financial decisions. However, fewer studies focus on understanding the determinants of financial literacy. Our paper fills this gap by ...
    • PHF 

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      The German Panel on Household Finances (PHF) is a panel survey on household finance and wealth in Germany, covering the balance sheet, pension, income, work life and other demographic characteristics of private households ...
    • PSID 

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      The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the longest running longitudinal household survey in the world. The study began in 1968 with a nationally representative sample of over 18,000 individuals living in 5,000 families ...
    • The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures 

      Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina (2020-09-21)
      Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. ...