Finance for all : the impact of financial literacy training in compulsory secondary education in Spain
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Fecha de publicación
3-feb-2015
Descripción física
50 p. : gráf., tab., fórmulas
Resumen
En el marco del Programa «Finanzas Para Todos», el Banco de España y la Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores coordinaron en 2013 un curso de Educación Financiera en 3.º de la ESO. Este curso fue impartido por los profesores de más de doscientos centros, y sus contenidos versaban sobre el ahorro y la planificación financiera, las relaciones bancarias y el consumo inteligente. Este trabajo examina si este curso aumentó las competencias financieras de un grupo de alumnos de 3.º de la ESO en veintidós centros de Madrid. Para ello, en primer lugar, se comparan las competencias fi nancieras de los alumnos que recibieron el curso con las de un grupo de estudiantes de 3.º de la ESO de dos centros que no impartieron la asignatura. En segundo lugar, se examina si los alumnos de 3.º de la ESO que cursaron la asignatura adquirieron mayores competencias financieras que los alumnos de 4.º de la ESO de esos mismos centros —que no la cursaron—. En ambos casos, el desempeño en pruebas de conocimiento financiero aumentó entre los alumnos a los que se impartió la asignatura en torno a un tercio de una desviación estándar. No obstante, el efecto varía entre centros y tipos de conocimiento, siendo mayor el efecto en el tema de relaciones bancarias y en los centros que aplicaron más intensivamente el temario. Finalmente, se comparan los conocimientos financieros de partida de los alumnos de los centros participantes con los de una muestra representativa de centros españoles para analizar la importancia de posibles sesgos de selección
We estimate the impact on objective measures of financial literacy of a 10-hour financial education program among 15-year-old students in compulsory secondary schooling. We use a matched sample of students and teachers in Madrid and two different estimation strategies. Firstly, we use reweighting estimators to compare the performance in a test of fi nancial knowledge of students in treatment and control schools. In another specification, we use school fixed-effect estimates of the effect of the course on changes in scores in tests of financial knowledge. The program increased treated students’ financial knowledge by between one-fourth and one-third of a standard deviation. We uncover heterogeneous effects, as students in private schools did not increase their knowledge much, possibly owing to a less intensive implementation of the program. Secondly, we analyze the bias that arises because the set of schools that participate in financial literacy programs is not random. Such selection bias is estimated as the pre-program performance in financial PISA of students in applicant schools relative to a nationally representative sample of schools. We then study whether estimators that condition on school and parental characteristics mitigate selection bias
We estimate the impact on objective measures of financial literacy of a 10-hour financial education program among 15-year-old students in compulsory secondary schooling. We use a matched sample of students and teachers in Madrid and two different estimation strategies. Firstly, we use reweighting estimators to compare the performance in a test of fi nancial knowledge of students in treatment and control schools. In another specification, we use school fixed-effect estimates of the effect of the course on changes in scores in tests of financial knowledge. The program increased treated students’ financial knowledge by between one-fourth and one-third of a standard deviation. We uncover heterogeneous effects, as students in private schools did not increase their knowledge much, possibly owing to a less intensive implementation of the program. Secondly, we analyze the bias that arises because the set of schools that participate in financial literacy programs is not random. Such selection bias is estimated as the pre-program performance in financial PISA of students in applicant schools relative to a nationally representative sample of schools. We then study whether estimators that condition on school and parental characteristics mitigate selection bias
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Documentos de Trabajo / Banco de España, 1502
Materias
Educación financiera; Evaluación de impacto; Sesgo de selección; Financial education; Impact evaluation; Selection bias; Economía del consumo y del ahorro; Mercado de trabajo; España
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