Research
Table of Contents
- Financial Literacy Home Page
- Reference Room Resources
- Finding Books in MaagNet & OhioLINK
- Electronic Books
- Government Resources
- Financial Literacy Articles & Research:
- Research Articles by YSU Professors
- Financial Literacy Research Articles
- Business Databases: Finding Articles
- MJF: Maag Journal Finder
- Publications for College Students
- Web Resources
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Research Articles by YSU Professors
Many of the articles published in academic journals relating to financial literacy were published by professors at Youngstown State University. Dr. Ronald P. Volpe, Professor of Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, has partnered with various other faculty & professionals to publish research findings in the area of financial literacy. Following is a list of links to some of their work:
- An Analysis of Personal Financial Literacy Among College Students
Haiyang Chen, Professor of Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State
Ronald P. Volpe, Professor of Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State
Financial Services Review 7(2): 107-128, 1998
- An Analysis of the Importance of Personal Finance Topics and the Level of Knowledge Possessed by Working Adults
Ronald P. Volpe, Professor of Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State
Haiyang Chen, Director E*Trade Financial Learning Center, Cotsakos College of Business, William Paterson
Sheen Liu, Dept. of Accounting & Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State
Financial Services Review 15 (2006) 81-98
- Financial Literacy, Education, and Services in the Workplace
Haiyang Chen, Director E*Trade Financial Learning Center, Cotsakos College of Business, William Paterson
Ronald P. Volpe, Professor of Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State
B>Quest (Business Quest): A Journal of Applied Topics in Business And Economics, 2005
- Personal Investment Literacy Among College Students: A Survey
Ronald P. Volpe, Professor of Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State
Haiyang Chen, Professor of Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State
Joseph J. Pavlicko, Business Analyst for Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania
Financial Practice and Education, Fall/Winter 1996, 86-94
- Gender Differences in Personal Financial Literacy Among College Students
Haiyang Chen, Director E*Trade Financial Learning Center, Cotsakos College of Business, William Paterson
Ronald P. Volpe, Professor of Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State
Financial Services Review 11 (2002) 289-307
- A Survey of Board Financial Literacy
Ron Volpe, Professor of Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State
Peter Woodlock, Professor of Accounting & Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, YSU
Corporate Finance Review, Vol. 12, No. 5 (March/April 2008), 16-21
- A Survey of Investment Literacy Among Online Investors
Ronald P. Volpe, Professor of Finance, Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State
Joseph E. Kotel, Staff Accountant, Falcon Transport, Youngstown, Ohio
Haiyang Chen, Professor Finance, Director E*Trade Financial Learning Center, Cotsakos College of Business
Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, 2002
Financial Literacy Research Articles
Following is a list of links to some of the research that has been published or distributed regarding financial literacy. These are articles that I have come across in my study of the subject, but is by no means an exhaustive list of all the research available. See the “Business Databases: Finding Articles About Financial Literacy” section below for information about finding other articles published about this subject.
- Financial Literacy: An Overview of Practice, Research, and Policy
Braunstein, S. & Welch, C. (2002). ., 87(11), 445-457
- Financial Literacy in America: Individual Choices, National Consequences
National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE), 2001
- Personal Finance and the Rush to Competence: Financial Literacy Education in the U.S.
Vitt, L. A., Anderson, C., Kent, J., Lyter, D. M., Siegenthaler, J. K., & Ward, J. (2000) Fannie Mae Foundation
Business Databases: Finding Articles About Financial Literacy
Use the databases listed below to search for articles and business information. While these databases provide a good starting point for your research, other databases are also available. To view the complete list of databases, go to the Maag Library Home Page and click on Research Databases on the left side of the screen under Quick Links.
Many articles may be found full-text within the databases, while many others may be found in print in the bound journals on the sixth floor of the library. If you’re having trouble locating the full-text of an article, contact Christine (contact information above left).
Click on the database titles below if you are in the library or on campus. If you are off campus, click on the Off Campus Access link to authenticate using the library barcode on the back of your YSU ID. Click HERE for more information about Off Campus Access.
- ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world’s most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
- BUSINESS SOURCE COMPLETE / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT BSC / BSC USER GUIDE
Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content. BSC provides full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM (Production & Operations Management), accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, nonjournal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry profiles, market research reports, product reviews, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
- ECONLIT / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT ECONLIT
EconLit, the American Economic Association’s electronic database, is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 785,000 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
- ELECTRONIC JOURNAL CENTER / EJC HELP & TIPS
Electronic Journal Center includes the full text of more than 7000 online research journals covering many subject areas. Most electronic indexes available to the Ohio academic community link from article citations to the full text in the EJC.
- ELECTRONIC THESES & DISSERTATIONS CENTER
Free online OhioLINK database of masters’ theses and doctoral dissertations from graduate students in participating Ohio colleges and universities.- Evaluating Mandated Personal Finance Education in High Schools (2007)
- Examining the Personal Finance Attitudes, Behaviors, and Knowledge Levels of First-Year and Senior Students at Baptist Universities in the State of Texas (2006)
- First-Year Student Financial Behavior and Academic Success (2007)
- A Follow-Up Study of Ohio State University Extension’s Youth Financial Literacy Program Real Money, Real World: Behavioral Changes of Program Participants (2009)
- JSTOR (Journal Storage) / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / JSTOR TUTORIALS
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR’s archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
- NBER: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS
Full subscription to all NBER working papers.- The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle (2007)
- Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Overindebtedness (2009)
- Financial Literacy Among the Young: Evidence and Implications for Consumer Policy (2009)
- Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation (2007)
- Financial Literacy: An Essential Tool for Informed Consumer Choice? (2008)
- Household Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Literacy, Information, and Financial Education Programs (2008)
- New Ways to Make People Save: A Social Marketing Approach (2009)
- Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare? (2008)
- PAIS INTERNATIONAL / ABOUT PAIS INTERNATIONAL
PAIS International is an index to the literature of public affairs — current issues and actions which affect the world communities, countries, people, and governments. This database covers important political, economic, and social issues. PAIS concentrates on topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. It contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more.
- REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
Regional Business News is a collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. In order to maintain the most current collection of news, this database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources.
- TOPICSEARCH / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT TOPICSEARCH
TOPICsearch is a current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for articles from magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, biographies, book reviews, public opinion polls, EBSCO’s Current Issues database, and government information.
- VOCATIONAL & CAREER COLLECTION / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT V&C COLLECTION
Vocational and Career Collection is designed to meet vocational and technical research needs. The collection provides index, abstracts, and full text for 350 trade and industry related periodicals.
MJF: Maag Journal Finder
Use Maag Library Home Page, click on MJF: Maag Journal Finder on the left side of the screen under Quick Links.
View the breakdown of Subject Headings in Business & Economics.
Following is a list of some of the journals in which you may find articles about financial literacy. BSC=Business Source Complete; EJC=Electronic Journal Center.
- Financial Counseling and Planning: 1/1/2004 to present in BSC Off Campus Access
- Financial Planning: 7/1/1998 to present in BSC Off Campus Access
- Financial Practice and Education: 3/1/1991 to present in BSC Off Campus Access
- Financial Services Review: 6/1/1991 to present in BSC Off Campus Access
- Journal of College Student Development: 2003 to present in EJC
- Journal of Consumer Affairs: 6/1/1967 to present in BSC Off Campus Access
- Journal of Economic Psychology: 1995 to present in EJC
- Journal of Education for Business: 9/1/1990 to present in BSC Off Campus Access
- Journal of Financial Planning: 7/1/1988 to present in BSC Off Campus Access
- Kiplinger’s Personal Finance: 7/1/1990 to present in BSC Off Campus Access
- Money: 5/1/1990 to present in BSC Off Campus Access