Research Library

Evaluation of a programme aimed to raise awareness of saving for key events such as Christmas, delivered through face-face training, promoted locally.

Exploring how people estimate their retirement income, and the frames of reference and language they use in doing so.

Ensuring that ex-offenders have sufficient legally obtained income to live on is a key factor in their successful rehabilitation, but many encounter significant problems achieving financial security.

Group training for front-line workers and face to face workshops and one-to-one sessions for service users, delivered by full time financial capability advisers in the North East of England.

Three experiments testing the future self-continuity hypothesis: that future self-perceptions are linked to savings behaviour.

Four year course involving children and their parents to increase financial capability and encourage saving behaviour.

A five year teacher training programme for secondary schools and colleges in five regions of England, delivered by personal financial education consultants and included lesson plans.

An academic study exploring saving motives and saving horizon using a large, nationally representative data set, the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances in the U.S.

A study examining the differential impact of a personal financial management course on US high school students.

Statistical analysis of existing quantitative data on financial capability from the British Household Panel Survey, by the Institute for Social and Economic Research, for the FSA.