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Analyzing the Effects of Financial Education on Financial Literacy and Financial Behaviour: A Randomized Field Experiment in Croatia

South East European Journal of Economics and Business
Volume 18 (2023): Issue 2 (December 2023)
By: Jasena TormaORCID,  Dajana BarbićORCID and  Marijana IvanovORCID  
Open Access
|Dec 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jeb-2023-0019 | Journal eISSN: 2233-1999
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Language: English
Page range: 63 - 86
Published on: Dec 10, 2023
Published by: University of Sarajevo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
Behavioral Finance,
Field Experiment,
Financial Literacy,
Analysis of Education,
Personal Finance,
Croatia
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Business management,
Business management, other,
Political economics,
Political economics, other

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