Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177069 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11265
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We conducted a randomized controlled trial where 3,000 9th grade students coming from 78 high schools received a financial education course at different points of the year. Right after the treatment, test performance increased by 16% of one standard deviation, treated youths were more likely to become involved in financial matters at home and showed more patience in hypothetical saving choices. In an incentivized saving task conducted three months after, treated students made more patient choices than a control group of 10th graders. Within randomization strata, the main impacts are also statistically significant in public schools, which over-represent disadvantaged students.
Subjects: 
financial education
impact evaluation
JEL: 
D14
D91
I22
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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