The more you know, the better you prepare for retirement.

That, and other findings, are part of a working paper from the Philadelphia-based Pension Research Council, which sought to learn whether financial literacy is associated with higher participation and contribution rates in the employer plan.

The paper’s researchers also evaluated, for those who participated in the program, whether financial literacy influences saving responses after exposure to a learning module.

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