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  • Combining nudges and boosts to increase precautionary saving

    A pre-registered randomised controlled trial using multiple evidence-based nudges and boosts to increase savings account uptake at a major commercial bank.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Saving

    Country/Countries: Ireland

    Year of publication: 2022

  • Evaluation of Your Money Matters Financial Education Textbook in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

    Your Money Matters (YMM) is a financial education programme delivered by Young Money, part of Young Enterprise. The programme includes textbooks and digital resources for teaching staff, and was distributed to state-funded secondary schools in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. An external evaluation was conducted to assess the impact of the program on teachers and students.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Financial Education, Financial Capability

    Country/Countries: Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales

    Year of publication: 2023

  • Money and Me Campaign Evaluation

    A short, high-intensity digital media campaign run by Young Scot in Scotland to engage young people with Money and Me which provides online information about budgeting, saving, spending and taxes.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Saving, Budgeting and Keeping Track, Financial Education, Financial Capability

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom, Scotland

    Year of publication: 2022

  • ‘Fun to finance’ workshops and Money Mentoring with women

    A mixed-methods evaluation of the Many Sisters ‘Fun to finance’ practical lifestyle workshops and 1-2-1 Money Mentoring delivered online by Southern Housing Group to women tenants in East London

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Saving, Credit Use and Debt, Budgeting and Keeping Track, Financial Education, Financial Capability

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom, England

    Year of publication: 2021

  • Measuring the long-term impacts of debt advice, 2021

    Results from a two-year quantitative longitudinal pilot study by the Money and Pensions Service to understand in-depth the medium and long-term impacts of encouraged debt advice on clients in the UK.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Credit Use and Debt

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom

    Year of publication: 2022

  • Does robo-advice improve people’s loan repayment decisions?

    An experimental trial of the effects of free and paid-for robo-advice on loan repayment decisions, run by the Financial Conduct Authority with participants representative of UK adults.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Credit Use and Debt

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom

    Year of publication: 2022

  • Evaluation of MyPocketSkill’s Earning is Learning programme

    Evaluation of MyPocketSkill, a digital technology platform that aims to connect young people with opportunities to earn money via an online platform, whilst encouraging a savings mindset and behaviour.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Saving, Financial Capability

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom

    Year of publication: 2022

  • Evaluation of the Scotland’s Financial Schools pilot

    The Scotland’s Financial Schools pilot project developed a digital ‘one-stop-shop’ of financial education teaching resources aimed at improving attitudes, knowledge, and confidence amongst teachers.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Financial Education

    Country/Countries: Scotland

    Year of publication: 2022

  • Evaluation of Embedding Talk, Learn, Do in Wales

    An evaluation of the further embedding of an existing programme to help parents talk to children about money, assessing both the training for practitioners and the views of parents

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Financial Education, Financial Capability

    Country/Countries: Wales

    Year of publication: 2020

  • Supporting emergency saving Briefing paper 3

    A qualitative assessment of early learnings from a trial of Jars, a workplace hybrid savings tool, comprising interviews with employees, employers and stakeholders

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics:

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom

    Year of publication: 2021

  • Supporting credit union members towards greater financial wellbeing

    This paper reports the results of an existing evaluation to recommend how credit unions can use financial education to improve the financial capability of their members

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Saving, Financial Education, Financial Capability

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom

    Year of publication: 2020

  • Talking with self-employed people about retirement saving

    This 2020 evaluation summarises the findings from two email messaging field trials that tested self-employed people’s engagement with different retirement saving messages.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom

    Year of publication: 2020

  • Improving financial wellbeing through the debt advice journey

    An evaluation of interventions that seek to improve financial capability among clients experiencing problem debt.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Credit Use and Debt

    Country/Countries: England

    Year of publication: 2020

  • The success in nudging consumers to pay credit card debt

    An evaluation to assess the impact of nudge interventions designed to increase credit card payments.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Credit Use and Debt

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom

    Year of publication: 2018

  • Intentions, beliefs and actions to pay credit card debt

    An evaluation to assess the impact of disclosure interventions designed to increase payments and improve behaviour regarding credit card debt.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Credit Use and Debt

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom

    Year of publication: 2018

  • A field experiment on overdraft alerts

    An evaluation to assess the impact of interventions designed to increase the number of people taking action to deal with their overdrafts.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Credit Use and Debt

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom

    Year of publication: 2018

  • The Stronger Nudge

    An evaluation to assess the impact of the ‘Stronger Nudge’ interventions on the proportion of people who receive Pension Wise guidance before they access their pension savings.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning

    Country/Countries: United Kingdom

    Year of publication: 2020

  • Evaluation of MyBnk Money Works

    Money Works is a financial education programme delivered by MyBnk across England and Wales. It aims to improve young people’s knowledge and digital skills in relation to financial matters.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Financial Education

    Country/Countries: England, Wales

    Year of publication: 2018

  • FinancialChampions – Groundwork West Midlands

    A community-led mentoring programme, with an aim of reducing social isolation among older people, while also increasing financial capability through the use of digital tools.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Financial Capability

    Country/Countries: England

    Year of publication: 2018

  • Cash Pointers Up Front

    An intervention to improve financial capability outcomes for groups of young people, focusing on those outside of mainstream education.

    Evidence type: Evaluation i

    Topics: Financial Capability

    Country/Countries: England

    Year of publication: 2018