📌 Key facts
- When: Start anytime.
- How to apply: Send us an e-mail (at the end of this page) with your CV and a grade report.
💡 Background
Women (in Germany) remain disproportionately affected by old-age poverty, due to structural factors such as career breaks, part-time work, and lower financial literacy and preparedness. Studies show that women generally have lower financial knowledge and confidence in financial matters. This lack of confidence can hinder engagement with critical financial decisions such as investing or retirement planning. Given the increasing importance of individual responsibility in pension systems, targeted financial education could be a key tool to promote financial independence among women. The thesis should aim to develop an overview of female finance-related literature, with a special focus on experiments, and develop an experimental design to test the effectiveness of a female-targeted financial education intervention.
Potential outcomes:
- Systematic literature review of gender gaps in personal finance (experiments) related literature
- Review of related experimental studies
- Development of a concept and experimental design for a female-targeted financial education intervention
🦾 Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organisations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎓 Profile - what we value
- High Interest and basic knowledge of: Personal finance, financial markets, and financial literacy.
- Organizational skills and proactive communication.
- Reliable and self-driven working style.
📝 How to Apply
- Please send your complete application documents (CV, Transcript of Records, Research Proposal) to simon.hochstrasser@tum.de
- Start date: please indicate your preferred start date in your application
Please note: Please don’t use ChatGPT within your application. Please write briefly and precisely, as you will do in your thesis. It is just a proposal. You will get more time at the beginning of your thesis to further extend your methodology and finetune your topic. If you prefer, you can also text me in German.