2024 Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute

Speakers

• Beth Bean, National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE)
• Annamaria Lusardi, Stanford University, Initiative for Financial Decision-Making and Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC)

Session Chair: Peter DeMarzo, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Panelists

• Michael Boskin, Stanford University, Dept. of Economics and Hoover Institution
• John Shoven, Stanford University, Dept. of Economics and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
• Annamaria Lusardi, Stanford University, Initiative for Financial Decision-Making and Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC)

Session Chair: Terrance Odean, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Presentations 

• Links Between Puzzles in Household Finance: Evidence from Employee Benefit Choices by Adam Leive, University of California, Berkeley
• Financial Awareness and Its Role in Financial Behavior by Ning Tang, San Diego State University

Session Chair: Christyna Serrano, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Presentations

• Scaling Financial Education Among Micro-Entrepreneurs: A Randomized Saturation Experiment by Tim Kaiser, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
• Evaluating a Financial Education National Campaign: Experimental Evidence from Italy by Alessia Sconti, Bocconi University

Session Chair: Robert Ganem, FINRA Investor Education Foundation

Presentations

• The Effect of Financial Education on College Education Savings Behavior in the U.S. by Thomas Korankye, University of Arizona
• Mortgage Brokers and Borrower Confusion by Susan Thorp, The University of Sydney Business School

Session Chair: Angela Hung, EarnIn

Presentations

• Financial Technology, Cost, and Competition: The Case of Credit Cards by Joseph Hall, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
• The Tech Aficionado: Help or Harm? – A Matter of Financial Literacy by Judith Bohnenkamp, University of Miami
• Financial Literacy, Portfolio Choice, and Wealth Inequality: A General Equilibrium Approach by Min Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Session Chair: Guglielmo Briscese, University of Chicago

Speaker

• Dimitris Georgarakos, Lead Economist – Monetary Policy Research Division, Directorate General Research, European Central Bank

Session Chair: Jialu Streeter, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Presentations

• Do Parents Save More for a Daughter or a Son? Evidence on Gender Favoritism from a Child Savings Program by Maya Haran Rosen, University of Pennsylvania
• Early Roots of Inequality: Evidence of a Gender Income Gap Among Children by Dennis Philip, Durham University

Session Chair: Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Presentations

• Financial Literacy and Resilience When Survey Respondents Prefer Guessing to Admitting Ignorance by Anna Lo Prete, University of Torino
• Gender Gaps in Financial Literacy: A Multi-Arm RCT to Break the Response Bias in Surveys by Margarita Machelett, Bank of Spain

Session Chair: Anita Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presentations

• Beyond Knowledge: Confidence and the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy by Marius Cziriak, University of Mannheim
• That’s What She Said: An Empirical Investigation on the Gender Gap in Inflation Expectations by Lovisa Reiche, University of Oxford
• Investment Illiteracy and Behavioral Biases in Trading by Li Liang, George Washington University

Session Chair: Daniela Balutel, York University and Bank of Canada

Presentations

• Return Heterogeneity in Retirement Accounts by Riccardo Sabbatucci, University of Pennsylvania
• Sustainable Investing by Tobias Wekhof, ETH Zurich and Stanford University

Session Chair: Angela Amarillas, Stanford University

Panelists

• J. Michael Dedmon, National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE)
• Justin M. Erwin, United States Military Academy
• Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• Michael Staten, University of Arizona

Presenters

• J. Michael Dedmon, National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE)
• Annamaria Lusardi, Stanford University, Initiative for Financial Decision-Making and Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC)