Financial Decision Making and Cognition in a Family Context

James Smith, John F. McArdle, Robert J. Willis

2010-01-01bookRAND Corporation eBooks34 citationsbronze

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Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics Financial Literacy and Behavior

Abstract

In this paper, we studied the association of cognitive traits and in particular numeracy of both spouses on financial outcomes of the family.We found significant effects, particularly for numeracy for financial and non-financial respondents alike, but much larger effects for the financial decision maker in the family.We also examined who makes these financial decisions in the family and why.Once again, cognitive traits such as numeracy were an important component of that decision with larger effects of numeracy for husbands compared to wives.

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