Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/278276 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2023-01
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), Innsbruck
Abstract: 
Building on cross-sectional data for Austrian high school students from fifth to twelfth grade, we investigate the correlations between socio-economic background variables and a comprehensive set of variables related to financial decision-making (i.e., financial knowledge, behavioral consistency, economic preferences, field behavior, and perception of financial matters). We confirm the findings of previous literature that the male gender is positively associated with financial knowledge and risk-taking and that there is a strong and beneficial correlation between math grades and healthy financial behavior (e.g., saving). Moreover, we find that students' behavioral consistency is positively correlated with measures of financial attitude (e.g., self-assessed future financial well-being and financial education received from parents). Finally, our results indicate that financial education, as perceived by the students, is primarily provided by parents.
Subjects: 
financial literacy
behavioral biases
economic preferences
field behavior
perception
experiment
adolescents
JEL: 
C93
D81
D91
G53
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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