Financial sophistication, salience, and the scale of deliberation in UK retirement planning

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2496-2515

  Clark, Gordon L ^a   Knox Hayes, Janelle ^a,b   Strauss, Kendra ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HEURISTICS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PENSION SYSTEM; RETIREMENT; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350527221     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a41265     Document Type: Article

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