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Financial literacy and retirement planning in chile*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2015

NATALIA GARABATO MOURE
NATALIA GARABATO MOURE*
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (e-mail: natalia.garabato@student.unsw.edu.au)
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Abstract

This paper studies the relationship between financial literacy and retirement planning in Chile, a country with mandatory defined contribution pension plans at the core of its retirement policy. Using a novel dataset, we find that very few Chileans are planning for their retirement and that the levels of financial literacy are remarkably low with only 47% of the population understand compound interest and only 18% understand the concept of inflation. We also find a positive and significant relationship between financial literacy and retirement planning suggesting that investments in financial education could have a substantial impact on the way people think about retirement and therefore on their ability to reach retirement with adequate resources.

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D12D91H31Financial literacyretirement planningpensionsdefined contribution
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Journal of Pension Economics & Finance , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 203 - 223
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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I would like to thank my thesis supervisors, Denzil Fiebig and John Piggott, and also Olivia S. Mitchell, for their guidance and comments. The ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) provided strong intellectual and financial support, which is gratefully acknowledged. Reviewers’ comments led to considerable improvements in the final manuscript. Preliminary versions of this work were presented at UNSW where seminar participants, Stanley Cho, Denise Doiron, and Alan Woodland, provided useful comments.

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