Translating financial education into behavior change for low-income populations

Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 27-45

  Lyons, Angela C ^a   Chang, Yunhee ^b   Scherpf, Erik M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial education; Financial socialization; Low income populations; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548683791     PISSN: 10523073     EISSN: 19477910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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