Consumer Interests Annual - Volume 61, 2015

Edited by Robert Nielsen, Associate Professor, University of Georgia

GENERAL SESSIONS

• Karpatkin Consumer International Award Lecture: Reframing Perspectives for Consumer Work - McGregor

• Esther Peterson Policy Forum - Praeger

• Wiley-Improving Authors' Publishing Experience - McCarley

Oral Sessions

Invited Presenters

Symposium: Consumer Expenditure Survey Data

• Health, Education, and Welfare: Works in Progress - Paulin

• The Impacts of Household Characteristics on Private Pension Deduction - Choi, Wilmarth, Kim

Symposium: Innovative Approaches to Creating Better Consumer Outcomes - Rhine, Hogarth, Melford, McDonnell, Reynolds

 
Concurrent C

Health and Healthcare Spending

• The Effect of Unexpected Income Loss on Weight: Temporary Unemployment and BMI - Babiarz
  

• Healthcare Spending, Financial Stability, and SNAP Participation - Kim, Chatterjee, Chang

Financial Literacy

• Potential Effects of Consumer Financial Education on Financial Capability: Evidence from the 2012 National Financial Capability Study - Xiao, O'Neill
  

Investing

• Designation and Fiduciary Standard Improve Investment Decisions - Guillemette, Jurgenson
  

• Behavior Perspectives on Making Investment Mistakes - Lei, Yao

• Did Greater Income Uncertainty Reduce Stock Ownership? Evidence from the 2007-2009 Survey of Consumer Finances Panel Dataset - Shin, Kim

Risk and Uncertainty

• Assessing the Effect of Reference Dependent Income and Uncertainty on Households Saving - Lee
  

Women, Money and Retirement

• The Relationship between Financial Satisfaction and Marital Status of U.S. Women - Fan, Babiarz
  

Financial Issues for At-risk Populations

• Elder Financial Exploitation via Power of Attorney Abuse: What Family Members? Experiences Preliminarily Reveal About Family Member  Perpetrators - Betz-Hamilton, Vincenti, Jasper, Rudisuhle

• The Use of Pawnshops in the United States - Nicolini, Cude

Food and Food Security

• Access to Payday Loans and Household Food Insecurity - Chang, Perry
  Applied Consumer Economics Award

• Understanding Transitions Into Food Insecurity - Nielsen, Wilmarth, Chung, Lee

College Students’ Financial Behavior

• College Seniors' Credit Use: Data from Credit Reports - Reyna, Cude
  

• Changing Temporal Discounting in College Students - Haynes, Tarabochia

• Relationship of Objective and Subjective Knowledge with College Student Financial Behaviors - Robb, Stebbins, Zimmerman 
  NEFE Paper Award

Well-being of Households and Consumers

• Income Dynamics and Household Savings during the Great Recession - Shin, Kim

• Consumer Characteristics Associated with Compulsive Buying - Goldsmith, Goldsmith, Flynn

 POSTERS

Financial Capability and Financial Literacy

• College Students and Financial Stress - Cude, Mathews
  

• Evaluating the Impact and Outreach of Personal Finance Twitter Chats: An Exploratory Study - O'Neill, Shockey, Anderson, Kiss

• The Influence of Finances in the Decision to Reconcile Marriage - Plauche, Lawrence, Marks

• Financial Parenting Over Time: Waning Power, Staying Power, Or Changing Power? - Serido, Ballard, Deenanath, Shim

Food: Security, Demand, and Consumption

•  What Drives Dietary Consumption: The Incongruence in Perceived Weight and BMI of Korean Women Consumers - Lee, Suk, Hwang, Kim

Health and Health Insurance

• Income and Employment Effects on Health Insurance Coverage Type - Aboagye, Babiarz

• The Effects of Socio-economic Status and Health Behaviors on Health Related Quality of Life - Hwang, Lee
  

• Who Utilizes the Internet for Medical-related Problems? A National Study from Taiwan - Yang, Lee, DeVaney*
  *Sharon DeVaney is this year’s ACCI Distinguished Fellow Awardee

Financial Matters: Adolescents and College Students

• Building and Sustaining Personal Financial Education Programs on College/University Campuses: The Role of the Program Champion - Danns, Cude

• Adolescent Self-Control and Long-Term Financial Outcomes - Jeon, Fox, Bartholomae

• National Student Financial Wellness Survey: Initial Findings and Research Trajectory - Montalto, McDaniel, Ducket, Bartholomae, Fox, Heckman, Letkiewicz

• Does the Perceived Burden of Student Loan Debt Affect Saving Behaviors - Mauldin, Henager-Greene

• Savings, Student Loan Debt, and Gainful Employment - Rabbani, Babiarz

Consumer Expenditures and Consumer Behavior

• The Effects of Consumer Socialization and Personal Traits on Impulsive Buying Behavior of College Students: A South Korean Example - Kim, Kim, Kim
  

Special Populations

• Effect of Social Media on Spending Habits Among Millennials - Cho, DeCook
  

• Propensity to Plan and Saving Decisions of Low Income Households - Min Lee, Kim

• The Role of Government Subsidies on Debt Management in Low Income Households - Kim, Wilmarth

Risk and Uncertainty

• Study of Risky Financial Behavior Using the Theory of Planned Behavior - Chalise, Zhao, Heo, Zhang, Ruiz-Menjivar

• Do Households With Health Insurance and Pension Save Less? - Cheung

Other Topics

• Walking an Unclear Path: Challenges and Accomplishments Associated with Encouraging Undergraduate Research at a Teaching-intensive University - Betz-Hamilton, Nagarajan

• Payday Loan Usage, State Law, and Financial Capability - Xiao, O’Neill