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  title info:
    title: Consumer Knowledge and Financial Decisions
    sub title: Lifespan Perspectives
  name:
    name part: Lamdin, Douglas J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 342 p. online resource.
  abstract: It’s no secret that financial literacy skills are crucial to consumers’ lives: between today’s complex picture regarding credit and mortgages and the many changes in health insurance and pension programs, failure to follow the money can be devastating. But not all consumers learn the skills—and not all experts agree on a definition for financial literacy. Covering a wide range of perspectives including family/consumer science, law, sociology, and public policy as well as finance and economics, Consumer Knowledge and Financial Decisions offers an accurate picture of American financial literacy and sets out real-world steps toward its improvement. The book starts by tackling methodological challenges to measuring financial competence, and takes a developmental approach to decision-making, such as encouraging responsibility in school children, reducing risky credit behaviors in young adults, and navigating Social Security and Medicare issues in elders. Each chapter focuses on what individuals need to know about a subject, the relationship of that knowledge to financial security, and programs that can improve decision-making or outcomes in that area. Among the topics covered: Cognitive development and children’s financial understanding. Financial education for college students. Homebuyer counseling for diverse buyers. Debtors’ assessment of bankruptcy education. Stock market investing: lessons from history. Financial preparedness for long-term care needs. This combination of timely data and practical ideas makes Consumer Knowledge and Financial Decisions a vital resource for a vital resource for professors, students, and policy analysts who study financial decisions.
  note: edited by Douglas J. Lamdin.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Psychotherapy
  subject:
    topic: Counseling
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychotherapy and Counseling
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: Economics, general
  classification: RC475-489.2
  classification: BF636.4
  classification: 616.8914
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Series on Consumer Science
  identifier: 9781461404750
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0475-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 111121
    record change date: 20151204184325.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-0475-0