Economics education and financial literacy acquisition: Evidence from a field experiment

We investigate how attending an undergraduate course in economics affects students’ financial literacy. The specific conditions of the course, which was compulsorily taken by law students at University Firenze, reproduce a quasi-experiment that enables us to isolate effect and provides solid evidence on its effect. find has positive effects literacy gain is most relevant for coming from backgrounds associated with lower large topics closer what taught but small other economic issues. From policy perspective, our support feasibility efficacy policies promoting general education, it also stresses redistributive egalitarian character such policies.