2011 American Council on Consumer Interests Conference Proceedings
Creating Useful Information for Health Insurance Consumers By: Brenda J. Cude
Health Care Spending by Medicare Households: 2005-2009 By: Ann C. Foster and Craig J Kreisler
Debt Holding and Burden by Family Structure: Patterns and Trends in 1989-2007 By: Jing Jian Xiao and Rui Yao
How Do We Make Financial Education Policy Work? How Research on Personal Financial Practices Associated with Wealth Accumulation Can Enhance the Effectiveness of Financial Educational Programs By: David W. Eccles, Paul Ward and Elizabeth Goldsmith
Invest in your health today so you do not have a big medical bill tomorrow: Is this really true? By: Patryk Babiarz, Richard Widdows and Tansel Yilmazer
Proximity, Emotional Closeness, and Financial and Time Transfer between Parents and Their Adult Children By: Jinhee Kim, Swarn Chatterjee, Saeeun Choi and Haejeong Kim
What’s time got to do with it? An Investigation of Obesity in Male versus Female Single Headed Households By: Jane Kolodinsky and Amanda Goldstein
Emergency Funds and Savings among Service Members By: Alexander M. Brand, Jeanne M Hogarth, Nicholas J. Peranzi and Andrew D. Vlietstra
Vermonters Use of Tax Refunds from 2007 to 2009 to Improve Household Economic Mobility through Savings and Asset Building Expenditure By: Michele C. Schmidt and Jane M. Kolodinsky
Who Benefits Most from Section 529 Plans and Coverdell ESA Accounts? Hyrum Smith
Risk-based Pricing and Credit Cards: What Consumers Need to Know
By: Nicholas J. Peranzi and Jeanne M. Hogarth
Did the Credit CARD Act Lead to Higher Interest Rates or Just More Honest Rates? By: Joshua M. Frank
Retirement Planning in an Emerging Market: A Cluster Analysis of Chinese Seniors’ Attitudes and Behaviors By: Yi Cai and Yali Yang
Financially Vulnerable Small Businesses and their Retirement Assets By: George Haynes and Deborah C. Haynes
The Relative Decline in Women in the Consumer Economics Major: A Case Study of the University of Illinois at U-C By: Andrea H. Beller and Megan Cott
Financial Behaviors of College Students: A Comparison of University Students in Ankara and Florida By: Michael Gutter and Zeynep Copur
Student Financial Counseling: An Analysis of a Clinical and Non-Clinical Sample By: Julie Cumbie, Sam Cupples, Justin Henegar, Kurt Schindler, Kristy Archuleta, Sonya Britt, and John Grable
What is the Cost of Married Women’s Paid Work? By: Seonglim Lee, Jinkook Lee and Yunhee Chang
The Role of Money Arguments in Marriage By: Sonya L. Britt and Sandra J. Huston
A Test of the Theory of Self-Esteem: A Consumer Behavior Perspective By: Ronald A. Sages and John E. Grable
In Search of A Fresh Start: Can Credit Counseling Help Debtors Recover from Bankruptcy? By: Angela C. Lyons, Erik Scherpf and Shawn Howard
Educating the Experts: Online Financial Education for Credit Union Employees By: J. Michael Collins and Deanna L. Dietrich
Financial Education for Employees: The Limits of Information By: J. Michael Collins
Portfolio Choice and Risk Attitudes: A Household Bargaining Approach By: Tansel Yilmazer
Factors Related to Meeting the Capital Accumulation Ratio Guideline: Evidence from the 1992 to 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances By: Jodi Letkiewicz
Financial Awareness and Consumer Rights: an Overview of Assessments and Policy Implications: Lessons from Transitional Economies By: Irina Kunovskaya and Brenda Cude
Financial Literacy Profiles of American Adults By: Sandra Huston
Consumer Education & Identify Theft By: David Standaloft and Margaret-Anne Houston
The Influence of Consumer Socialization Factors on Teens’ Privacy Concerns and Information Disclosure on the Internet By: Seounmi Youn
Harnessing the Power of Technology to Enhance Financial Literacy Education and Personal Financial Well-Being: A Review of the Literature, Proposed Model, and Action Agenda By: Wendy L. Way
Media Savvy: Translating Your Work for Media Consumption By: Susan Matthews Apgood and Lynn Harris Medcalf
The Online Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ Challenge: Pilot Test Evaluation Results By: Barbara O’Neill and Karen Ensle
Consumer Attitudes towards Genetically Modified Organisms in the Food Supply: A Look Back and Ahead By: Jane Kolodinsky and Thomas Patrick DeSisto
The Meaning of Retirement to Older Adults with Different Resources By: Ting-Ying Yang and Sharon A. DeVaney
How Do We Study Public Policy Research Questions? By: Sharon A. DeVaney and Ting-Ying Yang
Do Past Financial Knowledge and Positive Behaviors Portend Change or Continuity among Young Adults During Economic Crisis? By: Joyce Serido, Sun Young Ahn and Soyeon Shim
Exploration of Teacher Preparedness by State Financial Education Policy By: Amanda Blanco, Rachel Dorman, Michael Gutter, William Parker and Taylor Spangler
Moderating Role of Reactive Coping Behavior and Perceived Impact of Economic Crisis in Young Adult’s Change of Well-Being during the Recession By: Sun Young Ahn, Joyce Serido and Soyeon Shim
Retirement Planning for Small Business Owners: The Special Case of Home-Based Businesses By: Sam Cupples and John Grable
Technostress and Consumer Coping By: Sangmin Jun and Jungsung Yeo
Exploring The Relationship Between Financial and Non-financial Risk Taking Behaviors By: Diann Moorman, Martin Seay and Leslie Gordon-Simons
The Financial Coping Strategies of African American Women By: Cassandra Chaney, Frances C. Lawrence and Linda Skogrand
Children’s Food Choice in Scotland: Views of Policy Stakeholders By: Paul Johnstone and Margaret-Anne Houston
Is Financial Education a Moderator between Financial Social Learning Opportunities and Savings Behavior among College Students? By: William Parker and Michael Gutter
The Effect of Personal Financial Management, Bank Relationship and Small Business Characteristics on Small Business Productivity By: Haejeong Kim, Sharon A. DeVaney, SooHyun Cho and Jinhee Kim
A New Look at Consumers’ and Clinicians’ Options in Smoking Cessation: Smokeless Tobacco, Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Zyban, Chantix and other Interventions
By: Jason D. Miller, Teresa A. Mauldin, Brenda Cude and Joseph J Sabia
The Disclosure Solution to the Problems Consumers Face in the Life Insurance Marketplace By: R. Brian Fechtel
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