DENeB brings together researchers in the Berlin area who are working on themes related to Development Economics. The seminar series gives invited guests the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from members of the network.
Research has consistently shown that women’s involvement in household decision making positively affects household outcomes such as nutrition and education of children. Is financial literacy a determinant for women to participate in intra-household decision making? Using data on savings groups in Rwanda, we examine this relationship and show that women with higher financial literacy are more involved ...
This research studies the stylized fact of a “gender gap” in that women tend to have lower financial literacy than men. Our data which samples middle-class people from Bangkok does not show a gender gap for those with at least minimum wage earnings. This result is not explained by men’s low financial literacy, nor by women’s high income and good education. Rather, country characteristics may influence ...
Im 4. und letzten Workshop im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe des DIW Berlin „Finanzkompetenz für alle Lebenslagen“ wird insbesondere diskutiert, ob Finanzwissen sowie -bildung und -beratung einen Beitrag dazu leisten können, den Weg in die Verschuldung zu verhindern und den Weg aus der Verschuldung zu unterstützen. Laut Schuldneratlas 2019 betrug der Anteil...
We employ a psychometrically validated performance test to study economic competence among representative sample of 1,687 early secondary school students in Southwest Germany. The rich dataset allows us to study variation in economic competence across school types and observable student characteristics. Our results show that economic competence is significantly lower among female students, migrants, ...
Im Mittelpunkt des 3. Workshops im Rahmen unserer Veranstaltungsreihe „Finanzkompetenz für alle Lebenslagen“ steht das finanzielle Wissen von Frauen. In den meisten Ländern der Welt ist das Finanzwissen von Frauen geringer als das von Männern. In Deutschland schneiden Frauen vor allem bei komplexen Finanzfragen schlechter ab als Männer. Mit Blick auf das...
Many people live in patrilocal societies, which prescribe that women move in with their husbands’ parents, relieve their in-laws from housework, and care for them in old age. This arrangement is likely to have labor market consequences, in particular for women. We study the effect of coresidence on female labor supply in Kyrgyzstan, a strongly patrilocal setting. We account for the endogeneity of coresidence ...