TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hospido, Laura
AU  - Iriberri, Nagore
AU  - Machelett, Margarita
        TI  - Gender Gaps in Financial Literacy: A Multi-Arm RCT to Break the Response Bias in Surveys
        PY  - 2023/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16628
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16628
        AB  - Gender gaps in financial literacy are pervasive and persistent. They are partly explained because women choose "I do not know" more frequently. We test for the effectiveness of three interventions to shift this behavior. The control survey includes the possibility of "I do not know". The three treatments either exclude this possibility, offer incentives for correct answers, or inform survey takers of the existing gender gap in choosing this answer option. While all interventions are very effective in reducing this answer option, only the information significantly reduces the gender gap in "I do not know" and in financial literacy.
        KW  - financial literacy
KW  - gender gaps
KW  - survey methods
        ER  -