Financial Literacy and Emergency Saving

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-50

  Babiarz, Patryk ^a   Robb, Cliff A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency savings; Financial knowledge; Financial literacy; Precautionary savings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899572761     PISSN: 10580476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10834-013-9369-9     Document Type: Article

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