NEFE Inaugural 30th Anniversary Financial Education Impact Award

Pearson Award for the best paper published in Financial Management in the last two years

Clarivate Analytic's 2022 Highly Cited Researcher

Clarivate Analytic's 2021 Highly Cited Researcher

Fortune Italia's Most Powerful Women Award

Barron's 2020 Financial Empowerment Honoree

2019 Kahneman Lecture, IAREP/SABE Conference on Economic Psychology and Behavioural Economics, Dublin, Ireland

2018 Ketchum Prize, FINRA Investor Education Foundation

2018 Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Scholarship, The George Washington University

2017 Skandia Research Award on Long-Term Savings, Stockholm, Sweden

Financial Literacy Award, 2015 International Federation of Finance Museums, Beijing, China

2013 William E. Odom Visionary Leadership Award, Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of Vaasa, Finland, September 2018

Honors and Awards

2024 Fellow of The Econometric Society, October 2024

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Economic Research Foundation 2023 Research Prize, Centre for Research on Economic Relations (CER), Mid Sweden University, December 2023

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NEFE Inaugural 30th Anniversary Financial Education Impact Award, December 2022

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Pearson Award for the best paper published in Financial Management in the last two years, Fall 2022

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Highly Cited Researcher 2022, Clarivate, November 2022

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Kulp-Wright Book Award, ARIA (American Risk and Insurance Association), August 2022
"Remaking Retirement: Debt in an Aging Economy"

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Best Academic Paper, The Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards (MAIA), June 2022
"Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors"

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100 leaders of wealth management in Italy, We Wealth, 2022


Highly Cited Researcher 2021, Clarivate, November 2021

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Most Powerful Women Award 2020 Edition, Fortune Italia, October 2021

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European Forum Alpbach, Alpbach, Austria, August 2021


LinkedIn Influencer, 2021

LinkedIn Profile

100 leaders of wealth management in Italy, We Wealth, 2021

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TOP 150 FinTech Leaders and Influencers in Italy, January 2021

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2020 Corriere della Sera list of the 110 women of the year in Italy, December 2020

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GFLEC Named Barron's 2020 Financial Empowerment Honoree, December 2020

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Named University Professor at The George Washington University, January 2020

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2019 Forbes list of 100 most successful women in Italy

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2019 Kahneman Lecture, International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) and the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) annual meeting on Economic Psychology and Behavioural Economics, Dublin Ireland, September 2019

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Top 100 Fintech leaders and influencers in Italy

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2018 Ketchum Prize, FINRA Investor Education Foundation, for outstanding service and research to advance investor protection and financial capability in the U.S.

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2018 Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Scholarship, The George Washington University, presented annually to a tenured member of the faculty who has made significant original contributions to research and/or creative endeavors

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2017 Skandia Research Award on Long-Term Savings, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2017

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Ave Tucker Scholar, The George Washington University School of Business, 2017-2019


Financial Literacy Award, International Federation of Finance Museums, October 2015

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Ave Tucker Summer Fellow, The George Washington University School of Business, Summer 2015


William A. Forbes Public Awareness Award, Council for Economic Education, December 2014

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William E. Odom Visionary Leadership Award, Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, April 2013

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Nominated “Money Hero” by Money Magazine, 2012

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National Numeracy Network’s inaugural 2012 Steen Award for the best paper published in Numeracy, February 2013

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Winner of the Fidelity Pyramid Prize, a $50,000 award given to authors of published applied research that best helps address the goal of improving lifelong financial well-being for Americans, November 2007 (jointly with Olivia S. Mitchell).


Honorary Degrees

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science (Economics and Business Administration), University of Vaasa, Finland, September 2018

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Teaching Prizes

Award for Best Teacher, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, (Macroeconomics), 1999-2000.


First Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Princeton University, 1989-90.