Sound credit scores and financial decisions despite cognitive aging

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-69

  Li, Ye ^a   Gao, Jie ^b   Enkavi, A Zeynep ^b   Zaval, Lisa ^b,c   Weber, Elke U ^b,c   Johnson, Eric J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive ability; Consumer finance; Credit score; Decision making

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; AGED; COGNITION; ECONOMICS; FAMILY SIZE; INVESTMENT; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGING; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INVESTMENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84920367156     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413570112     Document Type: Article

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