Archive:
Janet Mills is a veteran in the Medicare Advantage marketplace. At Florida’s SHINE program for 13 years, Mills has provided unbiased counseling to thousands of seniors trying to make difficult choices about their Medicare coverage. Now an area coordinator, she also fields questions from volunteer counselors at SHINE – the Serving the Health Insurance Needs…
Abstract Retirement-account balances are lower among women than men. This study assesses the role of financial knowledge and empowerment in contributing to the gender gap in savings. We evaluate the effects of financial education delivered to women in the workplace, using administrative data on 31,000 public-sector workers in Wisconsin. All of these workers participated in…
