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Book/Printed Material How financial literacy and impatience shape retirement wealth and investment behaviors

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Title

  • How financial literacy and impatience shape retirement wealth and investment behaviors

Summary

  • "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. Two competing explanations for why consumers have trouble with financial decisions are gaining momentum. One is that people are financially illiterate since they lack understanding of simple economic concepts and cannot carry out computations such as computing compound interest, which could cause them to make suboptimal financial decisions. A second is that impatience or present-bias might explain suboptimal financial decisions. That is, some people persistently choose immediate gratification instead of taking advantage of larger long-term payoffs. We use experimental evidence from Chile to explore how these factors appear related to poor financial decisions. Our results show that our measure of impatience is a strong predictor of wealth and investment in health. Financial literacy is also correlated with wealth though it appears to be a weaker predictor of sensitivity to framing in investment decisions. Policymakers interested in enhancing retirement wellbeing would do well to consider the importance of these factors"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Names

  • Hastings, Justine S.
  • Mitchell, Olivia S.
  • National Bureau of Economic Research

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2011.

Notes

  • -  Title from PDF file as viewed on 4/28/2011.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Also available in print.
  • -  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  • -  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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  • HB1

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  • 2011655960

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  • Unrestricted online access

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Chicago citation style:

Hastings, Justine S, Olivia S Mitchell, and National Bureau Of Economic Research. How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2011655960/.

APA citation style:

Hastings, J. S., Mitchell, O. S. & National Bureau Of Economic Research. (2011) How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2011655960/.

MLA citation style:

Hastings, Justine S, Olivia S Mitchell, and National Bureau Of Economic Research. How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2011655960/>.