Handbook of Consumer Finance Research by Jing Jian Xiao

This moment version of the authoritative source summarizes the country of buyer finance examine throughout disciplines for professional findings on—and recommendations for enhancing—consumers’ monetary overall healthiness. New and revised chapters supply present learn insights into conventional suggestions (retirement saving, financial ruin, marriage and finance) in addition to the most recent findings in rising components, together with healthcare charges, on-line buying, monetary treatment, and the neuroscience at the back of purchaser habit. The increased assurance additionally experiences fiscal demanding situations of various populations comparable to ethnic teams, formative years, older adults, and marketers, reflecting the ubiquity of financial matters and issues. Underlying all chapters is the expanding value of economic literacy education and different large-scale interventions in an period of monetary transition.

Among the subjects covered:

• Consumer financial strength and well-being.
• Advancing monetary literacy schooling utilizing a framework for evaluation.
• Financial training: defining an rising box.
• Consumer finance of low-income families.
• Financial parenting: selling monetary self-reliance of younger consumers.
• Financial sustainability and private finance education.

Accessibly written for researchers and practitioners, this moment version of the Handbook of Consumer Finance Research will curiosity execs curious about bettering shoppers’ financial competence. It additionally makes a necessary textual content for graduate and complex undergraduate classes in economics, relations and shopper reviews, and comparable fields.