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The Long-Term Impact of High School Financial Education : Evidence from Brazil (English)

In 2011, the impact of a comprehensive financial education program was studied through a randomized controlled trial with 892 high schools in six Brazilian states. Using administrative data, this paper follows 16,000 students for the next nine years. The short-term findings were that the treatment students used expensive credit and were behind on payments. By contrast, in the long-term, treatment students were less likely to borrow from expensive ...
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Bruhn,Miriam; Garber,Gabriel; Koyama,Sergio; Zia,Bilal Husnain.

The Long-Term Impact of High School Financial Education : Evidence from Brazil (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10131 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099739107262230025/IDU09132deef0979104f800a9dc04d3ca45dc713

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