Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/187462 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IMFS Working Paper Series No. 127
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper uses unique administrative data and a quasi-field experiment of exogenous allocation in Sweden to estimate medium- and longer-run effects on financial behavior from exposure to financially literate neighbors. It contributes evidence of causal impact of exposure and of a social multiplier of financial knowledge, but also of unfavorable distributional aspects of externalities. Exposure promotes saving in private retirement accounts and stockholding, especially when neighbors have economics or business education, but only for educated households and when interaction possibilities are substantial.Findings point to transfer of knowledge rather than mere imitation or effects through labor, education, or mobility channels.
Subjects: 
household finance
financial literacy
social interactions
refugees
JEL: 
G11
E21
D14
F22
I28
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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