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Economics and Finance
USA
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
100
Citations
54438
World Ranking
106
National Ranking
83

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award

Overview

Olivia S. Mitchell is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Accounting, Demography, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, and Finance.

Their work covers main topics including Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis; Retirement, Disability, and Employment; Global Health Care Issues; Housing Market and Economics; Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management; Insurance and Financial Risk Management; and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction.

Mitchell has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Pensions Economics and Finance
  • The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
  • Journal of Banking & Finance
  • The Journal of Retirement

Notable recent papers by Olivia S. Mitchell include:

  • Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior at Older Ages, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Financial literacy and financial decision-making at older ages, 2020, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
  • Household Portfolio Underdiversification and Probability Weighting: Evidence from the Field, 2020, Review of Financial Studies
  • How financial literacy shapes the demand for financial advice at older ages, 2021, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
  • The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening a New Field, 2023, The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Mitchell include:

  • Annamaria Lusardi
  • Raimond Maurer
  • Robert L. Clark
  • Vanya Horneff
  • Abigail Hurwitz

Best Publications

  • The economic importance of financial literacy: theory and evidence

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • Baby Boomer Retirement Security: The Roles of Planning, Financial Literacy, and Housing Wealth

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • Financial Literacy among the Young

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell;Vilsa Curto

  • Financial Literacy around the World: An Overview

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S Mitchell

  • Financial Literacy and Retirement Preparedness: Evidence and Implications for Financial Education

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • Planning and financial literacy: How do women fare?

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare?

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • Financial Literacy Around the World: An Overview

    Annamaria Lusardi;Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • How Ordinary Consumers Make Complex Economic Decisions: Financial Literacy and Retirement Readiness

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S Mitchell

  • Optimal Financial Knowledge and Wealth Inequality.

    Annamaria Lusardi;Pierre-Carl Michaud;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • New Evidence on the Money's Worth of Individual Annuities

    Olivia S. Mitchell;James M. Poterba;Mark J. Warshawsky;Jeffrey R. Brown

  • How Financial Literacy Affects Household Wealth Accumulation

    Jere R. Behrman;Olivia S. Mitchell;Cindy K. Soo;David Bravo

  • Health problems as determinants of retirement: are self-rated measures endogenous?

    Debra Sabatini Dwyer;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence

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  • Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning: New Evidence from the Rand American Life Panel

    Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors.

    Justine S Hastings;Olivia S Mitchell

  • New developments in the economic analysis of retirement

    Robin L. Lumsdaine;Olivia Mitchell

  • Ambiguity aversion and household portfolio choice puzzles: Empirical evidence

    Stephen Geoffrey Dimmock;Roy Kouwenberg;Olivia S. Mitchell;Kim Peijnenburg

  • Projected Retirement Wealth and Savings Adequacy in the Health and Retirement Study

    James F. Moore;Olivia Mitchell

  • Baby Boomer Retirement Security: The Roles of Planning, Financial Literacy, and Housing Wealth

    Annamaria Lusardi;Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence

    Annamaria Lusardi;Annamaria Lusardi;Olivia S. Mitchell;Olivia S. Mitchell

  • Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

    Olivia S. Mitchell;Olivia S. Mitchell;Annamaria Lusardi;Annamaria Lusardi

Frequent Co-Authors

Annamaria Lusardi
Annamaria Lusardi Stanford University
Jeffrey R. Brown
Jeffrey R. Brown University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gary S. Fields
Gary S. Fields Cornell University
Arie Kapteyn
Arie Kapteyn University of Southern California
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Erzo F. P. Luttmer Dartmouth College
Alan L. Gustman
Alan L. Gustman Dartmouth College
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Thomas L. Steinmeier Texas Tech University
Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania
Phillip B. Levine
Phillip B. Levine Wellesley College

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