1995 Conference of the American Council on Consumer Interests 

Proceedings: 

• Effects of Methods of Teaching Computerized Family Budgeting to Literate and Non-Literate Women in Puerto Rico - Carmen R. Andrades - Garay 
• Partnerships in Fighting Consumer Fraud - Connie Armstrong, Betsy Cantrell, Betty Lipshutz, Miriam de Almeida Souza, Lawrence H. Norton 
• Nutrition Information: The Media, Government Regulation, and Consumer Knowledge - Rosemary J. Avery 
• Effects of Expected Future Income and Other Factors on Adequacy of Household Emergency Fund Savings - Y. Regina Chang 
• Determinants of Bank and Retail Credit Card Use - Heesun Choi, Sharon A. DeVaney
• Housing Affordability: A Comparison of Measures - E. Raedene Combs, Bryan A. Combs, Ann C. Ziebarth 
• Consumer Satisfaction with Complaint Handling Procedures of the Consumer Protection Section of the Louisiana Attorney General's Office - Ann M. Crawford, Frances Lawrence 
• Helping Families Managing Finances - Charlotte F. Crawford, Lois W. Smith, Sandra Stiles, Susan Taylor 
• University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service: Environmental Consumer Education Program - Brenda Cude 
• Confidence in a Financially Secure Retirement: Differences Between Non-Retired and Retired - Sharon DeVaney 
• Emergency Fund Adequacy among U.S. Households in 1977 and 1989 - Sharon DeVaney 
• Expenditures of Rural and Urban Baby-Boomer Households - Julia Dinkins 
• Lifecycle, Financial and Attitudinal Characteristics of Charitable Donors - Tanya L. Drollinger, Dixie P. Johnson 
• The Public's Right to Government Information - Maureen English 
• Transaction Costs, Value Structures, and the Economic Organization of Marital Incomes - Cynthia Needles Fletcher 
• PhD Dissertation Award Winning Paper: Household Demand System Analysis: Implications of Root Econometrics for Modeling, Testing and Policy Analysis - Jonathan J. Fox 
• Consumer Activism to Secure Ecological Objectives: Recent Boycott Initiatives Directed Against Major Corporations - Monroe Friedman
• Protesting Food Price Rises in Retail Markets: Consumer Economic Boycotts in Historical Perspective - Monroe Friedman 
• Esther Peterson and the Consumer Movement - John Kenneth Galbraith 
• The Role of Family Economics Research in Developing State Policy - Steve Garasky, Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Robert O. Weagley, Ann Coulson 
• Key Concepts in Consumer Economics Textbooks - E. Thomas Garman, Annette L. Bach 
• On Taking a Values-Focused Approach to the Teaching of Consumer Economics - E. Thomas Garman, Irene E. Leech, Michael J. Ellerbrock
• Amidst the Transition: Living the Fullbright Experience - Thesia I. Garner 
• Are All Debts Created Equally - Deborah Godwin 
• The Adequacy of Emergency Funds to Cover Household Expenditures - Sherman Hanna, Hui Wang 
• Wealth, Reservation, and the Decision to Retire - Charles B. Hatcher 
• The Portrayal of Children in Advertisements in Selected Magazines - Janelle K. Hood, Barbara M. Heinzerling, Tomasita Chandler, Douglas Hausknecht 
• Retirement Decisions: Are Women and Men Different? - Gong Soog Hong, Julie Xu Yu 
• Factors Affecting Human Capital Expenditutres of Female-Headed Households - Yoon G. Jang 
• Wife's Employment and Food Expenditures Away from Home - Helen H. Jensen & Steven T. Yen 
• Using Multimedia to Teach Consumer Economics and Personal Finance - Virginia Junk 
• Master's Thesis Award Winning Paper: Probability of Receiving an Inheritence and Leaving a Bequest: Evidence from the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances - Yu-Yin Emily Kao 
• Do Managed Care Health Benefits Plans Benefit Consumers? - Jane Kolodinsky 
• Retirement Timing Decisions of American Men - Jane Kolodinsky, Rosemary Avery, Leslie Pelch 
• Buying a Car with Credit: Credit Education for Limited English Proficient Consumers - Jean M. Lown, Carmen D. Steggell, Susan W. Chandler 
• Global Consumer Education: A Content Analysis of Project Real World - Sue L.T. McGregor, Catherine Greensfield 
• Financial Preparation for Retirement - Y. Lakshmi Malroutu, Jing Jian Xiao 
• Financial Knowledge and Behavior of Welfare Recipients - Julia Marlow, Deborah Godwin, Esther Maddux
• Trends in Environmental MArketing Claims Since the FTC Gides: Two Year Auditing Results - Robert N. Mayer, Brenda J. Cude, Jason W. Gray-Lee, Deborah L. Scammon 
• Asking the Question: What is the Relationship of Materialism, Commercialism and Children? - Lois Wright Morton 
• Economic Well-Being of Disabled Elderly Households: The Impact of Multiple Factors - Glenn Muske 
• A Model to Predict Satisfaction with Continuing Care Retirement Communities -Aimee D. Prawitz, Frances C. Lawrence, Patricia J. Wozniak Consumerism in Korea - Kee-Choon Rhee, Jinkook Lee 
• Forecasts of Consumer Research and Education Needs: A Consumer Advocate Perspective- Lee Richardson 
• Culturally Diverse Consumers: Are We Reaching Them? - Mary Ellen Rider, Phillip Tajitsu Nash, Lydia Y. Savage Johnson, Horacio Soberon-Ferrer 
• Building Linkages in the Consumer Interest - Jane Schuchardt, E. Thomas Garman, Jeanne M. Hogarth 
• Consumer Research and Education Needs - Katrinka Smith Sloan 
• The Impact of Medicare HMSs on Business, Private Consumers, and Government - Mark E. Steiman, Wendy Reiboldt 
• Resource Use and Decision MAking in Caregiving of Frail Elders: Is Research Informing Public Policy? - Marlene Stum, Gong Soog Hong, & Shelley White-Means 
• The Global Development Project - Roger Swagler 
• Consumer Interest in the 1990's and Beyond - James S. Turner
• Consumer Perception of Fat and Demand for Beef in the United States - Guijing Wang, Stanley M. Fletcher, Dale H. Carley, Wen S. Chen 
• Do Marital Status and Presence of Children Affect Women's Wage Rate? - Hui Wang 
• Cigarette Consumption in China: Implications for Public Health and Trade - Quingbin Wang, Catherine H. Halbrendt, Helen Jensen
• Households Showing Financial Characteristics of Potential Bankrupts - Kaili Yieh, Richard Widdows 
• Long-Term Care Options and Their Effects on Wealth Holding of the Elderly - Yuri Yoshida 
• Welfare Analysis of Agricultural Policies Using Complete Demand Systems for Different Representative Households in the U.S. - Jun Zuo, Wen S. Chern