Financial Well-Being

Overview

FiWell Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

In 2025, we launched a new interdisciplinary research seminar at The Wharton School on household finance and financial well-being (broadly defined).

The goal is to bring together faculty and PhD students across disciplines to (1) learn from internal and external researchers working in this space and (2) spark new research collaborations.

Financial well-being is a topic that spans nearly every department, as it influences a wide range of outcomes, including mental and physical health, worker productivity, decision-making, risk-taking, and spending. This is a truly interdisciplinary initiative, bringing together 50 faculty and PhD students from ACCT, BEPP, FNCE, HCM, MKTG, MGMT, and OID.

We kicked off the series on April 30th, 2025 at the close of Financial Literacy Month, with a set of “flash talks” from Wharton researchers including Linsey Cameron, Wendy De La Rosa, Rob Kuan, Katy Milkman, and Alex Rees-Jones.

Speakers 2025-2026

November 3, 2025

Research Affiliate, Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work; Professor Dual Appointment in Economics and EECS
MIT
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Misunderstanding (between People and Algorithms)
Abstract: Abstract

March 16, 2026

Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
University of Chicago
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Field Experiments on Trial

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