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Online financial and demographic education for workers: experimental evidence from an Italian Pension Fund

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  • Favero, Carlo A.
  • Billari, Francesco
  • Saita, Francesco

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We present and test experimentally a low-cost, Internet-based, literacy intervention program that we designed for implementation with the largest employer-based pension fund in Italy. The Finlife (Financial Education and Planning for a Long Life) program, included: 1) an online instructional video on financial, and demographic, literacy; 2) an experimental design that explicitly allowed evaluating the impact of the online content on financial and demographic literacy, as well as on short-term behavioral changes; 3) a follow-up that allowed assessing the subsequent choice of investment lines within the pension fund. Finlife was designed to be low-cost and scalable approach to increase financial and demographic literacy, consistently with a ‘nudge’ philosophy. We show that Finlife delivered a substantially and statistically significant increase in financial and demographic literacy, as well as a push towards seeking more information on financial markets and choices related to financial planning, and becoming more active in financial decisions.

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  • Favero, Carlo A. & Billari, Francesco & Saita, Francesco, 2022. "Online financial and demographic education for workers: experimental evidence from an Italian Pension Fund," CEPR Discussion Papers 17609, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:17609
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    Keywords

    Pensions; Financial literacy; Demographic literacy; Field experiment; Finlife; Online financial education;
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    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making

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