Supporting Emergency Saving: Briefing paper 2
An early evaluation of a trial of a hybrid workplace savings product, designed to improve both emergency savings and pension provision, based on qualitative interviews with employers and stakeholders
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Saving, Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
Supporting Emergency Saving: Briefing paper 1
An early evaluation of the policy around sidecar savings, based on learning from implementing a trial of a hybrid workplace savings product designed to improve both emergency savings and pension provision
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Saving, Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
Can financial advice impact financial wellbeing?
A survey of 2,000 working age people in Britain, exploring if there is a link between financial advice and financial wellbeing, conducted on behalf of a financial services provider
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Financial Education
Country/Countries: England, Scotland, Wales
Year of publication: 2020
The New Social Contract Shaping a retirement ready workforce
A short report – a companion to a longer existing study - based on survey data about the role of employers in pension saving
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
Can Gambling Increase Savings?
An analysis of banking data to assess the use of a prize linked savings account in South Africa
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Saving
Country/Countries: South Africa
Year of publication: 2014
Employee financial well-being: Behavioural insights
A review of literature on behavioural insights, with a focus on how the insights can be applied to increase the financial wellbeing of adults in the workplace
A comprehensive and replicable review of all relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
An indicative review of a sample of relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
Topics: Financial Capability
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2017
Evaluation of the Savings and Credit Pathfinders programme
An evaluation of a UK-wide pilot programme, with three workstreams, aimed at improving saving and credit use amongst people in MaPS ‘Struggling’ and ‘Squeezed’ segments.
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Saving, Credit Use and Debt
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2021
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
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Financial Education, Financial Capability
Country/Countries: Wales
Year of publication: 2020
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
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Saving, Financial Education, Financial Capability
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
Exploring regulatory approaches to consumer vulnerability
A review of literature around vulnerability in the UK and Australia, for the Australian Energy Regulator, to understand better regulatory approaches to safeguarding vulnerable customers
A comprehensive and replicable review of all relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
An indicative review of a sample of relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
Topics: Financial Capability
Country/Countries: United Kingdom, Australia
Year of publication: 2020
Evidence-Based Strategies to Build Emergency Savings
A literature review focusing on high-quality randomised field studies and lab experiments to provide evidence of current savings innovations and identify promising saving strategies
A comprehensive and replicable review of all relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
An indicative review of a sample of relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
Topics: Saving
Country/Countries: United States
Year of publication: 2020
Balancing savings and debt: Findings from online experiment
An US-based online experiment exploring why some people choose to retain savings rather than use them to pay off debt, even when the debt interest rate is higher than the savings rate
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Saving, Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United States
Year of publication: 2021
Open Banking for Good: Moving the Dial?
A B2B qualitative evaluation of a programme by Nationwide Building Society to fund Fintech’s to develop Open Banking technology to help the financially squeezed.
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Budgeting and Keeping Track, Financial Capability
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2019
A new approach to measuring the poverty premium
A mixed-methods study including literature review, data analysis, survey and focus groups to estimate the cost of the poverty premium in Britain based on lived experience of low-income households
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Financial Capability
Country/Countries: England, Scotland, Wales
Year of publication: 2020
A review of literature, and secondary analysis of existing survey data, to look at the poverty premium amongst people with protected characteristics: sex, race and disability
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Financial Capability
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2021
An analysis of a survey of the impact of coronavirus on personal and household finances in the UK, focusing on people who are excluded from government support schemes (CJRS and SEISS)
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Financial Capability
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2021
A review of literature and data combined with primary qualitative discussions on the topic of poverty in the UK and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic
A comprehensive and replicable review of all relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
An indicative review of a sample of relevant studies on a topic with a summary of findings
Topics: Financial Capability
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2021
An analysis of mortgage switching, using qualitative and quantitative research to understand the profile of non-switchers, barriers to switching and interventions that could encourage switching
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Credit Use and Debt
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
Supporting emergency saving briefing 2: Employer experience
Second briefing paper from the trial of a new sidecar savings product which combines emergency savings with defined contribution pension savings
Information about the programme design and rationale
Evidence about Financial Capability outcomes for programme participants
Evidence that the Financial Capability outcomes were caused by the programme
Evidence about programme implementation, feasibility, and piloting
Evidence about relative costs and benefits of the programme
Topics: Saving
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
A qualitative and quantitative research and insight study looking at the barriers to engagement with pension contributions and if language can be better used to nudge consumers into saving more
Qualitative research is more exploratory, and uses a range of methods like interviews, focus groups and observation to gain a deeper understanding about specific issues - such as people’s experiences, behaviours and attitudes.
Quantitative research uses statistical or numerical analysis of survey data to answer questions about how much, how many, how often or to what extent particular characteristics are seen in a population. It is often used to look at changes over time and can identify relationships between characteristics like people’s attitudes and behaviours.
Topics: Pensions and Retirement Planning
Country/Countries: United Kingdom
Year of publication: 2020
