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Title
The role of financial literacy in households’ asset accumulation process: evidence from Ghana
Author(s)
Publication Date
2023
Open Access
Yes
Abstract
<p>This paper examines the impact of financial literacy training on household asset accumulation using data collected from a randomised controlled trial implemented in Ghana. Financial assets are measured using account holdings and savings while durable assets and their decomposed components are captured using their total values. After testing for baseline balance, impact is estimated using treatment effect models. We find that financial literacy training plays a significant role in accumulation of both financial and durable assets, but the impact is more evident in the accumulation of productive durable assets. Our overall findings on productive and non-productive assets are robust to alternative conceptualisations of what constitutes productive and non-productive assets. Our results also show that financial literacy training has an impact on the accumulation of both total and productive assets in female-beneficiary households, as well as enhancing account holdings for females, although this effect was larger for males. The analyses for different age cohorts also revealed that financial literacy training results in higher asset accumulation among younger household heads.</p>
Publication Type
Journal Article
Source of Publication
Review of Economics of the Household, v.21, p. 591-614
Publisher
Springer New York LLC
Place of Publication
United States of America
ISSN
1573-7152
1569-5239
File(s) openpublished/TheroleKoomson2023JournalArticle.pdf (966.57 KB)
Published version
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020
Peer Reviewed
Yes
HERDC Category Description
Peer Reviewed
Yes
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