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The children’s influence on the parent’s buying behavior as well as on the family budget was neglected in the past. In today’s modern lifestyles, dominated by technological devices and digital media, children are greatly exposed to ads and messages that are fostering their eagerness for...
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Research has shown that the Indonesian Family Hope CCT Program aimed at improving children's health and education of … of their extra cash on frivolous goods, rather than health and education as intended. Our results show that the program … leads recipients to mildly decrease their levels of frivolous consumption and increase their share of spending on education …
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— our reasons for purchasing a home or higher education at all. This is consumer law's duality: consumers have great …” and “higher education as equal opportunity.” This Article describes how the administration of these expectations — in … higher education, home-ownership, and retirement savings — limits the efficacy of consumer protection law's already …
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In this paper, I am using the data from the 2013 Chinese Household Finance Survey (CHFS) to explore the impacts of financial literacy on Chinese households' retirement planning and the demand for commercial insurances, especially among the financial excluded/vulnerable subpopulations (rural,...
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This study combines novel financial-literacy data with measures of attitudes to redistribution from the British Election Study. We find a significant negative relationship between financial literacy and attitudes in favour of government intervention for income redistribution. The effect is...
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Do firms seek to make the market transparent,or do they confuse the consumers in their product perceptions? We show that the answer to this question depends decisively on preference heterogeneity. Contrary to the well-studied case of homogeneous goods, confusion is not necessarily an equilibrium...
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This study uses the 2009 National Financial Capability Study dataset to examine the factors associated with information search behavior by consumers when applying for a loan. The results indicate that financial literacy, perceived financial knowledge, educational attainment, and engaging the...
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