Effect of personal financial knowledge on college students' credit card behavior

Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-43

  Robb, Cliff A ^a   Sharpe, Deanna L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Credit card use; Personal financial knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649921569     PISSN: 10523073     EISSN: 19477910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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