Gray, D. orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-4110, Montagnoli, A. and Moro, M. (2021) Does education improve financial behaviors? Quasi-experimental evidence from Britain. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 183. pp. 481-507. ISSN 0167-2681
Abstract
This paper uses a range of exogenous schooling reforms in the UK to explore the relationship between education and a range of financial behaviours. Initially, we exploit two compulsory schooling reforms in Britain (1947 and 1972) and employ a regression discontinuity design to analyse nationally representative data. We find limited evidence that one extra year of schooling led to systematically different financial behaviours. One exception is the promotion of more positive saving behaviours amongst females affected by the 1947 reform. We then go on to explore a large expansion of the higher education sector in the UK, which occurred during the 1980s and 1990s, and confirm that general education does not appear to affect financial behaviours systematically. We argue that, despite clear positive spill-overs of educational reforms, desirable financial behaviours require specific and targeted education policies and we point to the growing research in this field to support this conclusion.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Elsevier B.V. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Compulsory Schooling Laws; Education Expansion; Financial Behaviours; Regression Discontinuity; Saving Decisions |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2021 09:50 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jul 2022 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.01.002 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169558 |