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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong +7 more
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Croatian Operational Research Review, 2015 The aim of this paper is threefold. First, to detect and categorize Croatian financial consumers’ financial literacy and analyze whether the different levels of financial literacy is statistically significant in terms of socio-demographic characteristics.
Vlasta Bahovec +2 more
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Economic Literacy: An International Comparison [PDF]
, 2010 This article uses international panel data on 55 countries from 1995 to 2008, merging indicators of economic literacy with a large set of macroeconomic and institutional variables.
Tullio Jappelli, Jappelli, Tullio
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang +3 more
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Financial Literacy and Portfolio Diversification [PDF]
In this paper we focus on poor financial literacy as one potential factor explaining lack of portfolio diversification. We use the 2007 Unicredit Customers’ Survey, which has indicators of portfolio choice, financial literacy and many demographic ...
Luigi Guiso, Tullio Jappelli
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, 2009 This document contains a 25-item test of financial literacy that formed the basis of three research projects exploring the links between ability, personality, interests, and financial literacy.
Fogarty, Gerard J.
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Income more important than financial literacy for improving wellbeing
, 2021 As advocates of financial literacy education, it is a hard pill to swallow when data show little impact on financial behaviors. Unfortunately, expectations that university students with higher levels of financial literacy have reduced money management ...
West, Tracey +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT People impacted by alcohol and other drugs (AOD) are supported across a range of health and social service settings, often by workers in generalist roles who may not have specialist training. Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in equipping AOD workers with the knowledge and skills required for practice, yet there is no ...
Kirrilly Thompson +6 more
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Financial Literacy and Financial Sophistication Among Older Americans [PDF]
This paper analyzes new data on financial literacy and financial sophistication from the 2008 Health and Retirement Study. We show that financial literacy is lacking among older individuals and for the first time explore additional questions on financial
Annamaria Lusardi +2 more
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