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Concurrent Sessions
- Habit and Regular Saving: An Intertemporal Analysis - Cäzilia Loibl, David Kraybill, Sara DeMay
- Who Cannot Afford Health Insurance - Sophia T. Anong, Sharon A. DeVaney
- Proposal for a Lead Federal Financial Services Regulator and State Regulation of Financial Planners - Benjamin F. Cummings, Hyrum L. Smith
- Preventing Future Economic Crises through Consumer Protection Law- Jeff Sovern
- Racial Discrimination in the Consumer Credit Market- Chi-Jack Lin, Sherman D. Hanna
- Does Risk Tolerance Change in Response to Market Changes? - Rui Yao, Angela L. Curl
- Assessing Financial Distress/Financial Well-Being via Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview: Preliminary Results - Robert B. Nielsen
- Progressing Towards Empowering Caregivers and Planners with Special Needs Planning Resources - Janine K. Scott, Mitzi K. Lauderdale, Rich Stebbins
- What Makes a Good Money Manager Good? Insights from an Evaluation of a Financial Education Initiative - Catherine J. Bell, Daniel Gorin, Jeanne M. Hogarth
- The Role of Saving Goals on Savings Behavior: A Regulatory Focus Approach - Soo Hyun Cho, Loren Geistfeld, Cäzilia Loibl
- Liquidity Constraints and Dissaving - Sherman D. Hanna, Yoonkyung Yuh
- An Exploration of the Relationship between College Student Personal Financial Knowledge and Credit Card Use Behaviors - Cliff A. Robb
- Bank Accounts and Youth Financial Knowledge: Connecting Experience and Education - Laura Choi
- Delivery Methods of Financial Information related to Perceived Financial Well-being - Kathryn J. Morrison, Patricia Swanson, Robert Bosselman
- Transition to Elderhood: Health Behavior and Financial Well-Being of Aging Koreans - Jinhee Kim, Seung-eun Cha
- Preventative Health Behavior of Baby Boomers: Who are they? - Diana Burk, Yoon G. Lee
- Optimism, Economic Outlook, and Financial Savings among Japanese Women -Yoko Mimura, Teresa A. Mauldin
- Determinants of Retirement Savings among Black Americans Nearing Retirement - Yoon G. Lee, Eun Hyei Shin
- Factors Predicting Well-being of Single Older Women Aged 65 and Older - Yoon G. Lee, Susan M. Brown, Jennifer C. Jenkins
- The Impact of the Current Economic Environment on Motivation to Save: Differences by Three Age Groups - Teresa A. Mauldin, Yoko Mimura, Sharon A. DeVaney, Diann Moorman, Carol Gittens
- The Role of Lending Practices on the 2007 Foreclosure Crisis: Evidence from Indiana and Ohio- Tansel Yilmazer, D. E. Kiss
- Changes in U.S. Home Equity Lending: Evidence From the 1989 Through 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances- Jeanne M. Hogarth, Andrew D. Vlietstra
- Factors That Influence Small Business Start-up - Adrienne Hall
- Can One Spouse Accurately Represent Couple Risk Tolerance? - Sherman D. Hanna, Suzanne Lindamood
- Asset Ownership of Recently Lawful Immigrants - Jinhee Kim, Swarn Chatterjee
- The Increase in the Proportion of Households with Heavy Financial Obligations - Sherman D. Hanna, Yonkyung Yuh
- Wealth Holdings: Impact of Bequest Motives and Receiving Inheritance - Yoon G. Lee, Jeffrey S. Wallace
Special Sessions
- Recession-Related Research: Recounting Recent Results from the Consumer Expenditure Survey - Bill Passero, Ann C. Foster, Laura Paszkiewicz, Geoffrey Paulin
- Classroom-Based Financial Education for Youth: How Can We Do it Better? - Michael E. Staten, Nicole Wanago, Shawn Cole, Lois Vitt
- Consumer Finance and Spending in Transitional China - Moderator: Jing Jian Xiao
- Innovative Teaching Methods in Undergraduate Consumer Economics and Financial Planning - Russell N. James III, Cliff A. Robb, Robert O Weagley, Brenda J. Cude, Teresa Mauldin, Lance Palmer
- Financial Planning for Farm Families: Two New Resources for Financial Educators - Barbara O’Neill, Stephen Komar, Robin Brumfield, Robert Mickel, Nancy Porter, Debb Pankow, Jane Schuchardt
Posters
- HSAs: An Underutilized Healthcare Savings Vehicle - Martin Seay, Lance Palmer, Robert Nielsen
- Farm to School Programs: A Piece to the Puzzle for Solving Childhood Obesity - Melissa J. Wilmarth, Robert B. Nielsen
- Personal Financial Recovery Following Bankruptcy: Education Topics of Interest - Lance Palmer, Vibha Bhargava
- Consumption Adjustment in the Process of Post-disaster Recovery - Chuanlan Liu, Frances C. Lawrence, William C. Black, Anna M. Walz
- The Modern Manufactured Home Next Door: Perceived Effects on Property Values - Melissa Casey, Doneshia Starling, Anne Sweaney, Yoko Mimura, Robert B. Nielsen
- Improving College Student Financial Literacy - Joyce A. Cantrell, Jodi L. Kaus, Esther M. Maddux
- Long-term Care Partnership Plans and the Need for More Education - Eileen St. Pierre, Misty Gillespie
- Saving and debt behaviors among Chinese seniors: An empirical investigation of the ‘cushion hypothesis’ - Yi Cai, Allen Martin, Wei Cao
- Do Teens and Adults Agree On What Teens Should be Taught About Money - A Comparison of 1998 and 2008 - Karen P. Varcoe
- Are Recipients of Payday and Car Title Loans More Risk Tolerant than Others? - Ann Sanders Woodyard, Nicholas Carr, John Grable, Sonya Britt
- The Impact of Market Fluctuations on the Level of Directly-held Risky Assets of Different Racial and Ethnic Groups - Michal Polanowski, Robert B. Nielsen, Vibha Bhargava
- The Consumer’s Perspective of Students as Financial Educators and Service Providers - Lance Palmer, Jon Ronquillo
Editor’s Note
The 56th Annual Conference of the American Council on Consumer Interests was held in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, April 14 – 16, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia. Abstracts and papers of refereed presentations and summaries of other sessions held during the meeting are provided in these conference proceedings. In the event in which a paper is under review or in press for another journal, presenters have been asked to submit an abstract of their work for Consumer Interests Annual instead of a full-length article.
Thanks to each of the following persons who helped make the conference a success:
- Conference Board Coordinator: Debby Haynes, Montana State University
- Program Chair: Jan Garkey, Credit Union National Association
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Bobbi McCrackin, Todd Greene, Tim Smith, Karen Leone de Nie
- Federal Reserve Board: Jeanne Hogarth
- University of Georgia: Brenda Cude
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