Family Economic Well-Being
- The goal is to conduct research that makes a difference in people’s lives by producing evidence that has implications for educators, practitioners, and policy makers and relevance to individuals, families, and society.
- To understand structural influences on family economic well-being.
- Try to get a comprehensive understanding of how households change their savings and financial portfolio decisions in response to a certain government policy.
- Maintaining an applied research program that creates new, relevant, practical knowledge identifying processes and factors that promote and/or detract from financial wellness as well as testing community-based interventions that can help promote behaviors and environments that enrich financial wellness.
- Scholarly work spanning from micro-level household financial decision making to macro-level effects of public policies on family economic outcomes. A central focus is rural, low-income families and impacts of community-based programs addressing family and consumer economic issues.
- Impacting government policies (health care, tax, and immigration) on household financial decisions.