Consumer vulnerability and credit card knowledge among developmentally disabled citizens

Journal of Consumer Affairs

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 425-438

  Mansfield, Phylis M ^a   Pinto, Mary Beth ^a  

^a Department of Management Information Systems   (United States)

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EID: 50249115073     PISSN: 00220078     EISSN: 17456606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6606.2008.00115.x     Document Type: Article

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