Assessing Financial Education: Evidence from Boot Camp
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Assessing Financial Education: Evidence from Boot Camp
This study estimates the effects of Personal Financial Management Course attendance and enrollment assistance using a natural experiment in the U.S. Army. New enlistees’ course attendance reduces the probability of having credit account balances, average balances, delinquencies, and adverse legal actions in the first year after the course, but it has no effects on accounts in the second year or...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1945-7731,1945-774X
DOI: 10.1257/pol.20140283