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Is the belgian Youth Ready for the Reformed Pension System ?

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  • Sidney De Cecco
  • Antonio Estache

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The paper analyses levels of financial literacy among university students in a Belgian University and links them to their retirement savings preferences in a context in which a reform of the pension system has increased the importance of making individual retirement savings decisions at an early age. The core information is generated through a survey questionnaire including a small scenario, a financial literacy evaluation and questions on savings preferences. It is then processed through a logit model. The results show that financial literacy is relatively high in our sample of university students. However, differences between demographic groups matter to financial literacy and savings decisions.

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  • Sidney De Cecco & Antonio Estache, 2015. "Is the belgian Youth Ready for the Reformed Pension System ?," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2015-28, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
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