This paper, presented by Jeffrey Dew at the Family Financial Security Symposium in April, 2010, demonstrates that financial behaviors once characterized as "thrifty" or "wasteful" have implications for married couples that go beyond their financial bottom lines. Download Paper These behaviors and the financial distress or well being that they create influence couples’ relationship processes, their relationship … Continue reading Beyond the Bottom Line- Relationship Reasons to Practice Thrift
Family Financial Security Symposium
Cognitive Abilities and Household Financial Decision Making
In this paper, presented at the Family Financial Security Symposium in April, 2010, Sumit Agarwal and Bhashkar Mazumder analyzed the impact of cognitive skills on two specific examples of consumer financial decisions where suboptimal behavior is well defined: first, the use of a credit card for a transaction after making a balance transfer on the account, and … Continue reading Cognitive Abilities and Household Financial Decision Making
University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security 