Consumer Interests Annual 2006 


 

Consumer Willingness to Pay Premiums for Non-GM and Organic Foods

John C. Bernard, Katie Gifford

 

Do Financial Planners Serve the Interests of Their Clients? Use of Financial Planners, Credit Card Balances and Liquid Assets

Lan Bi, Sherman D. Hanna

 

Determinants of Owning a Prestigious Automobile

Sookeun Byun, Sharon A. DeVaney

 

Economic and Behavior Profiles of Women and Men Who Consume Whole Grains

Andrea Carlson, Lisa Mancino

 

Why Setting Standards is Important to Consumers and How Consumers Benefit

Caroline Warne

 

Household Debt and Marital Instability: Evidence from Korean Labor and Income Panel Study

Yunhee Chang, Ki Young Lee

 

Change in Retirement Adequacy, 1995-2001: Accounting for Stages of Retirement

Chen-Chung Chen, Sherman D. Hanna

 

Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Do Households Optimize Their Investment Portfolios Based on Their Subjective and Objective Risk Tolerance?

Chen-Chung Chen, Tzu-Chin M. Peng, David A. Evans, Sherman D. Hanna

 

Consumer Diet-Disease Knowledge and Food Label Usage

Conrad J. Choinière,  Anu Mitra

 

The Effects of Urban Sprawl on Body Mass Index: Where People Live Does Matter?

Seong-Hoon Cho, Zhuo Chen, David B. Eastwood, Steven T. Yen

 

Longitudinal Analysis of Big Box Store Construction on Nearby Home Values

Melvin Corlija, Emilian Siman, Michael S. Finke

 

Towards Financial Literacy—Program Leaders Comment on Evaluation and Impact

Michelle D. Coussens

 

Geography of Consumer Bankruptcies and Neighborhood Characteristics

Lucy Delgadillo, Dan Coster, Luke Erickson

 

Credit Card Usage among White, African American and Hispanic Households

Duleep Delpechitre, Sharon A. DeVaney

 

An Evaluation of Policy Initiatives Designed to Aid Decision Making in Personal Finance in the UK

James F Devlin

 

An Advocacy Approach to Federal Nutrition Guidance and Implementation

Eric Hentges

 

Immigrant Status and Consumer Behavior Regarding Investment Products among College Students

Joshua Fogel, Placido D. Viterbo, Jun Yin, Jennifer Gipp

 

Differences in the Onset of Formal Retirement Saving between Native and Foreign Born Individuals: An Event History Analysis

Angela Fontes, Michael S. Gutter

 

How Well Do Individuals Assess Their Own Risk Tolerance? An Empirical Investigation

John Grable, Michael Roszkowski, So-Hyun Joo, Barbara O'Neill, Ruth H. Lytton,

 

Collecting Data on Eating Patterns, Obesity Risk and Food Access: The Food and Eating Module

Karen S. Hamrick

Economic Well-being of Poor and Non-Poor Women in Kentucky: Correcting for Selection into Marriage

Claudia J. Heath, Robert Walker

 

Cohort Analysis of Consumer Credit Card Behaviors: Will Consumers Be Ready for Retirement?

Laura M. Reynolds, Jeanne M. Hogarth, Amberly Taylor

 

Consumer Payment Choices: Paper, Plastic – or Electrons?

Jeanne M. Hogarth, Jane M. Kolodinsky, Tatiana Gabor

 

¡Cuidado! Remittances and Consumer Protection

Marianne A. Hilgert, Jeanne M. Hogarth, Jonathan H. Kivell

 

So Tell Me What You Really Think: Payroll Cards from the Consumer’s Perspecti

Jeanne M. Hogarth, Michael D. Wilson

 

Social Security:The Way Forward

John Rother

 

Youth Energy Balance: Evaluating Family and Economic Trajectories

Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Barbara B. Brown, Jessie X. Fan, Ken R. Smith, Cathleen D. Zick

 

Elder Fraud: An American-Korean Comparison

Eun-Jin Kim, Loren Geistfeld

 

Financial Problems and Marital Well-being for Recently Married Individuals

Katrina Nye, Yoon G. Lee, Brian J. Higginbotham, Thomas R. Lee, David G. Schramm

 

Retirement Preparedness of Pre-Retirees Aged 52-64

Yoon G. Lee, Leslie Green,

 

Self-Employed Near-Retirees and Financial Retirement Preparation

Yoon G. Lee, Jessica Johnson

 

The More Financially Knowledgeable Person in Older Couple Households

Suzanne Lindamood, Sherman D. Hanna

 

Food Expenditures: Organic Food Shoppers versus Non-Organic Food Shoppers

Jinghan Li

 

Factors Contributing to Consumer Bankruptcy

Jean M. Lown, Jessica Johnson

 

Household Finance Issues and Marital Instability

Angela C. Lyons, Yunhee Chang, Jeffrey Dew, Jonathan Fisher, Urvi Neelakantan

 

Translating Financial Education into Knowledge and Behavior Change

Angela C. Lyons, Mitchell Rachlis, Michael Staten, Jing Jian Xiao

Doctor’s Orders and Magic Pills: How Much Do People with Health Problems Substitute Medication for a Healthier Lifestyle?

Lisa Mancino, Fred Kuchler

 

Changes in Factors Contributing to Rising Body Mass Index: 1997 versus 2002

Bidisha Mandal, Wen Chern

 

Exploratory Study of Senior Citizens’ Credit Card Attitudes and Usage

Phylis M. Mansfield, Mary Beth Pinto

 

Economic Well-being of the Elderly: Gender Differences

Jariah Masud, Sharifah A. Haron, Aizan T. A. Hamid, Zumilah Zainaluddin

 

Changing Behavior One Step at a Time: The Small Steps to Health and Wealth™Workbook

Barbara O’Neill

 

Starting Over: Financial Education for Bankruptcy Filers

Barbara O’Neill, Jane Schuchardt, Robert O. Weagley, Celia Hayhoe

 

Financial Distress: Definition, Effects and Measurement

Barbara O’Neill, Benoit Sorhaindo, Aimee Prawitz, Jinhee Kim, E. Thomas Garman

 

How Effective Were the Financial Safety Nets in the Aftermath of Katrina?

Julia S. Cheney, Sherrie L.W. Rhine

 

Prepaid Cards: An Important Innovation in Financial Services

Julia S. Cheney, Sherrie L.W. Rhine

 

Re-evaluating the Relation between Smoking and BMI: The Impact of Time Preference

Cliff A. Robb, Sandra J. Huston, Michael S. Finke

 

Consumer Buying Behavior in Response to Corporate Scandal: The Case of Martha Stewart

Sarah Roberto, Wendy Reiboldt, David Schult, Lydia Sondhi

 

The Effect of Employment Status on Households’ Emergency Savings

Alicia Rodriguez-Flores, Sharon A. DeVaney

 

Women and Net Worth over the Life Cycle

Alicia Rodriguez-Flores, Sharon A. DeVaney

 

Sources of Income among University Students in Malaysia

Mohamad Fazli Sabri, Jariah Masud

 

Trends in the Food Intakes of Children 1977-2002

Rhonda S. Sebastian, Linda E. Cleveland, Joseph D. Goldman, Alanna J. Moshfegh

 

Wealth Status of Single Women: A 12 Year Comparison

Deanna L. Sharpe, Sandra J. Huston

 

Assessing Client Flow and Customer Service in a One-Stop Career Center

Deanna L. Sharpe, Peter Mueser

 

Specific Elements of Communication That Affect Trust and Commitment in the Financial Planning Process

Deanna L. Sharpe, Carol A. Anderson, Andrea White, Susan E. Galvin, Martin Siesta

 

Which Consumers Are Using Home Equity Lines of Credit?

Emilian Siman, Michael S. Finke, Melvin Corlija

 

Assessing the Effectiveness of Financial Management Distance Education for Women

Patricia Swanson, Cynthia Needles Fletcher

 

The Risk Tolerance and Stock Ownership of Business-Owning Households

Cong Wang, Sherman D. Hanna

 

Older and Younger Women and Their Opinions about Social Security Reform and Private Accounts

Meifang Xiang, Sharon A. DeVaney

 

Applying the Transtheoretical Model of Change to Credit Counseling: Addressing Practical Issues

Jing Jian Xiao, Jiayun Wu

 

Determinants of the Extent of External Search for Information about Savings and Investment

Yuan Yang, SharonA. DeVaney

 

The Effect of Credit Constraints on the Severity of the Consumer Debt Service Burden

Jing Zhao, Sherman D. Hanna, Suzanne Lindamood

 

Academic Persistence and the Role of Revolving Credit Card Debt

Andrew Zumwalt, Sandra J. Huston, Michael S. Finke, Robert Weagley