Trading Stocks to Build Financial Literacy and Confidence

Professor Saumitra Jha discussed his paper, "Trading stocks builds financial confidence and compresses the gender gap," and ongoing work from a series of follow-on studies. Saum is an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and convenes the Stanford Conflict and Polarization Lab. He is also a senior fellow at Stanford's Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law within the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Affairs and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and a faculty fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. He has consulted on economic and political risk issues for the United Nations/WTO, the World Bank, government agencies, and private firms.