Clearing House Financial Education Research (CHF)

The Clearing House Financial Education Research (CHF) acts as a coordinator and interface between research, practice and policy in the field of financial education. Its aim is to promote evidence-based financial education and enhance the quality of financial education research.

The highly diverse and dynamic nature of the financial education landscape, the interdisciplinary nature of financial education research, and the sharp increase in publications in specialist journals make it difficult for interested parties in education policy and practice, as well as researchers, to obtain a comprehensive and well-founded overview of current developments and findings. This is where we come in. We monitor national and international trends in financial education, prepare financial education research findings for specific target groups and provide standards and guidelines for academia, practitioners and policymakers.

The CHF is aimed at anyone with an interest in financial education. In particular, it is aimed at the following target groups:

• Researchers in the field of financial education:
  Provision of research syntheses, academic guidelines and measurement tools to advance research into financial education.
• Financial education practitioners:
  Providing short reviews and methodological tools to support the development of educational programmes based on scientific evidence.
• Policy-makers in the context of financial education:
  Providing policy briefs to contextualise developments and findings in financial education research, so that policy decisions can be made on the basis of scientific evidence.

The CHF provides the following offerings:

• Research syntheses on the current findings in financial education research
• Repository for measurement instruments in financial education research
• Data documentation and management
• Glossary of financial education research terms
• Podcast on current findings of financial education research