High Education, Low Returns: Financial Literacy Challenges for African Americans and Hispanics

Table 1.

Descriptive Data Overall (n = 6229)

  Mean Std. Deviation

Age (Years) 48.80 15.552

Years of Schooling 11.07 2.278

Number of Chronic Medical Conditions 1.07 1.237

Self-Rated Health 2.56 0.999

Financial Literacy 9.45 3.098

  n %

Sex/Gender    

men 2727 43.8

women 3502 56.2

Race    

White 5645 90.6

African American 584 9.4

Ethnicity    

Non-Hispanic 5588 89.7

Hispanic 641 10.3

Immigrant    

No 5858 94.0

Yes 371 6.0

Working    

No 2579 41.4

Yes 3644 58.5

Missing 6 0.1

Marital Status    

No 2589 41.6

Yes 3637 58.4

Missing 3 0.0