Experts Available to Discuss Importance of Financial Literacy Month

With April being designated Financial Literacy Month, experts from RAND Corporation and the Financial Literacy Center are available to discuss the importance of improving consumers' understanding of personal finance.

Many studies have shown that financial literacy is low among Americans, with too few people knowing how to adequately save, invest and manage their money. A joint venture of the RAND Corporation, Dartmouth College and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Financial Literacy Center has a mission to develop and test innovative programs to improve financial literacy and promote informed financial decisionmaking.

Experts available to discuss the importance of financial literacy include:

Annamaria Lusardi — director of the Financial Literacy Center and professor of economics at Dartmouth. She is one of the world's leading experts on financial literacy, financial education and saving behavior. She writes a blog on these topics at http://annalusardi.blogspot.co/.

Arie Kapteyn — the center's associate director and director of the RAND Labor & Population program. He is a leading expert in modeling economic behavior with a focus on retirement, consumption and savings, and the economic well-being of the elderly.

Olivia S. Mitchell — the center's co-director, professor at the Wharton School and executive director of the Pension Research Council at Wharton. Her expertise is in pensions, wealth and health, and retirement security.

Punam Keller — professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth whose expertise is social marketing.