Financial Literacy,Household Asset Allocation and Wealth Accumulation
As a special kind of human capital,financial literacy has an important effect on household financial decision-making.Based on the China Household Finance Survey(CHFS)data,this paper investigates the effect of financial literacy on household asset allo-cation and wealth accumulation.We find that the improvement of financial literacy will promote the probability of household holding risky assets and investment properties,increase the proportion of risky assets and investment properties.Moreover,financial liter-acy also promotes household wealth accumulation.The mechanism is that financial literacy promotes households to obtain higher investment returns and make aging plans.Heterogene-ity analysis shows that compared with basic financial literacy,advanced financial literacy plays a greater role in promoting household asset allocation and wealth accumulation.Com-pared with rural households and low to middle wealth households,financial literacy plays a greater role in promoting asset allocation and wealth accumulation of urban households and high wealth households.This study provides important theoretical and policy implications for improving household financial literacy and promoting household asset allocation optimi-zation and wealth accumulation.