Financial Literacy
Implications for Retirement Security and the Financial Marketplace
$145.60
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2011
Summary
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with defined contribution pensions; employer and government judgment regarding how much to save and where to invest has been replaced by employees having to make these choices on their own(sometimes assisted by advi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199696819 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199696810 |
| Author: | Olivia S. Mitchell, Annamaria Lusardi |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 612g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 162mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Pensions Research Council |
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Critics Review
Financial Literacy offers a comprehensive journey across the current state of understanding of financial education and its impact on financial behaviours. It provides a useful survey of the field and will give any financial practitioner or policy-maker reasons and methods to think about the human consequences of their designs and actions. * Jeremy Duffield, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance *
About The Author
Olivia S. Mitchell
Olivia S. Mitchell’s main areas of interest are private and public insurance, risk management, public finance, labour markets, compensation, and pensions with both a US and an international focus. She is a Research Associate of the NBER and she earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.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 Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
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