The G53 Financial Literacy and Personal Finance Research Network connects scholars in financial literacy & personal finance from around the world.

Joined November 2021
One week left! We invite submissions to the 2026 @Stanford Financial Education Symposium, taking place April 23–24 at @StanfordGSB during Financial Literacy Month. The symposium provides a forum for sharing research that advances the field, informs policy, and highlights what works in practice. We welcome submissions from faculty, researchers, and advanced PhD students studying financial education, policy, and program effectiveness. Research has a critical role to play in shaping effective financial education — we hope you'll join us. To be considered, please email papers to [email protected] by Jan. 31.
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Apply Now: Financial Literacy Research Boot Camp 2025    The G53 Financial Literacy and Personal Finance Research Network invites applications for its 2025 Boot Camp, which will take place at @Stanford in June 2025.
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The Boot Camp fosters collaboration among young researchers, providing a unique platform to exchange ideas and build a strong professional network. It is organized by the @G53Network & @Stanford Initiative for Financial Decision-Making & supported by the Joachim Herz Foundation.
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Don’t miss this chance to advance your research and connect with leading experts in the field. Submit your application to [email protected] today! #research #bootcamp #financialiteracy
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This week, the G53 Network Brown Bag Lunch featured Adam Leive from the University of California, Berkeley, who presented “Links Between Puzzles in Household Finance: Evidence from Employee Benefit Choices.”
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It emphasizes the need to do more—and better—to support people in the complexity of financial decisions we have to make in everyday life.
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The #G53Network provides researchers with a platform to present their work in-progress and foster connections and collaborations as part of the G53 Network's training and mentoring programs.
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New Working Paper posted on our website: Assessing Financial Literacy Among the Young, co-authored by Luis Oberrauch from the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), and #G53Network members @Dr_AnnaLusardi from @Stanford & Tim Kaiser from @rptu_kl_ld.
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The working paper examines the data collected so far (2012, 2015, 2018), documents stylized facts across waves, and provides guidance on using the test scores estimated from psychometric models.
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Access the working paper at this link: lnkd.in/gFQjpzBD Join the live launch of PISA results on June 27 at 11 am CEST at this link: lnkd.in/e6KQcGdN #OECD #PISA #FinancialLiteracy
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#CallForPapers! At the @G53Network, we're working on our 2024 Brown Bag Lunch series program. If you have #research on personal finance, financial literacy, financial education & related topics, share your work with an expert panel of members. Apply here➡️ bit.ly/3r5Sp72
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New! Our Working Paper Series added “Selection into Financial Education and Effects on Portfolio Choice” by Irina Gemmo (@HEC_Montreal) & #G53Network members Pierre-Carl Michaud (@HEC_Montreal) & @OS_Mitchell (@Wharton). Get access to the research here:  lnkd.in/gkDHPR4B
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Call for #research projects! The Retirement and Savings Institute at HEC Montréal and the Global Risk Institute invite submissions of research proposals on pensions, household financial wellness & retirement. To learn more, visit: ire.hec.ca/en/call-for-propo… @ire_rsi @globalriskfs
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For the third & final day of the #G53Network Boot Camp on #FinancialLiteracy & #PersonalFinance, we had a joint presentation by Professors Tabea Bucher-Koenen (@ZEW, @MIFE_FINEDU) & Rob Alessie (@univgroningen) providing a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in finlit.
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We are confident that the knowledge and skills acquired by the participants during the Boot Camp will have a lasting impact on their future endeavors. Working with such motivated Ph.D. students and post-docs has been a rewarding experience for all our lecturers and instructors.
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Thank you all for your active participation! We also thank the @JHerzStiftung for such warm hospitality! #financialliteracy #personalfinance #researchwithimpact #EconTwitter
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