Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Coda Moscarola, Flavia
Author-Email: flavia.codamoscarola@unito.it
Author-Name: Migheli, Matteo
Author-Email: matteo.migheli@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: Educating Children to Save: an Experimental Approach to Financial Education of Pupils in Primary Schools.
Abstract: Financial education is today a primary issue. We experimentally test whether a programme (“treatment”)
of financial education on savings, targeted to children aged 8 and 9, is effective and to what extent.
We measure the interest rate required by the children before and after the treatment to accept to postpone a reward,
compute its variation and compare this with that of a control group. We find that children are sensitive to
the programme, and that this decreases the children’s impatience. We also find some gender differences that cast 
some doubts about the gender neutrality of programmes of financial education. 
Length: 20 pages
Creation-Date: 2015-01
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2015dip/wp_2_2015.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:dipeco:201502