The Journal of Consumer Affairs articles from June 2000

The Journal of Consumer Affairs archives from June 2000

Editor's Report.
June 22, 2000... A portion of this volume addresses the special topic of welfare reform research. The section is introduced by the Colston E. Warne Lecture. * The welfare reform articles are keynoted by publication of a manuscript based on the 1999 Colston...

1999 DISTINGUISHED FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON CONSUMER INTERESTS.
June 22, 2000... Mohamed Abdel-Ghany CITATION Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Ghany, professor of consumer sciences at the University of Alabama, is the 1999 Distinguished Fellow of the American Council on Consumer Interests. He is respected both nationally and...

Work, Income, and Material Hardship after Welfare Reform.
June 22, 2000... The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 ended the federal entitlement of cash assistance for needy families with children and created the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program (TANF). TANF...

The Food Stamp Program in an Era of Welfare Reform: Electronic Benefits and Changing Sources of Cash Income.
June 22, 2000... Linked survey data and Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) records are used to investigate the distinct roles played by food stamp benefits and cash income in the household budget at different times of the month. Using data from Maryland in 1993,...

Academics and Advocates: Using Participatory Action Research to Influence Welfare Policy.
June 22, 2000... University students on welfare, working with academic researchers, successfully lobbied for a state policy in Wyoming to define postsecondary education as work under the 1996 welfare reform law. This article describes the researchers' use of...

Welfare to Well-Being Framework for Research, Education, and Outreach.
June 22, 2000... The proposed framework is intended to serve as a model for understanding the comprehensiveness of welfare assistance policies that contribute to the economic well-being of individuals and families. The framework uses a systems approach to move...

Leaving Welfare: Independence or Continued Vulnerability?
June 22, 2000... Data from two semi-structured interviews gathered approximately six months apart from seven women who were receiving cash welfare benefits at the time of the first interview and were not receiving benefits at the second interview were used to...

Nutrition Knowledge, Gender, and Food Label Use.
June 22, 2000... This paper empirically explores the relationship between nutrition knowledge, gender, and food label use. The econometric approach treats both nutrition knowledge and label use as endogenous variables when estimating the model for food label...

Differences in Spending Habits and Credit Use of College Students.
June 22, 2000... In a study of college students, affective credit attitude (feeling about using credit cards) and gender influenced college students' credit purchasing. Affective credit attitude predicted the purchase of clothing, electronics, entertainment,...

The Home Front: Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing Policy.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Newman, Sandra J., ed. 1999. The Home Front: Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing Policy, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 235 pp. In the mid 1990s, welfare reform took front stage in public policy arenas and subsequently...

Common Sense on Mutual Funds.
June 22, 2000... Bogle, John C. 1999. Common Sense on Mutual Funds, New York: Wiley and Sons, 468 pp. plus xxi. John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard family of mostly index funds, maintains that many (readers can easily infer most) mutual funds are ripping...

The New Institutionalism in Sociology.
June 22, 2000... Brinton, Mary C. and Victor Nee, eds. 1998. The New Institutionalism in Sociology, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 388 pp., $45. This multiauthored, multidisciplinary collection seeks to outline the central contributions of new...

Ethical Decision Making in Marketing.
June 22, 2000... Chonko, Lawrence B. 1995. Ethical Decision Making in Marketing, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 315 PP., $19.95. As the title clearly indicates, Chonko's book addresses practical decision making rather than approaching marketing...

The Social Meanings of Money and Property: In Search of a Talisman.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Doyle, Kenneth. 1999. The Social Meanings of Money and Property: In Search of a Talisman. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 289 pp., $65 ($19.95 paper). All that this author ever thought he needed to know about money came from Woody...

Consumer Fraud: A Reference Handbook.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Norrgard, Lee E. and Julia M. Norrgard. 1998. Consumer Fraud: A Reference Handbook, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 328 PP., $45. In the last decade literally dozens of new books have been published on the topic of consumer fraud. Some focus...

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy.
June 22, 2000... Stanley, Thomas J. and William D. Danko. 1996. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy, New York: Simon & Schuster, 258 pp., $14 (paper). Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko are marketing professors who...

Prosperous Retirement: Guide to the New Reality.
June 22, 2000... Stein, Michael K. 1998. Prosperous Retirement: Guide to the New Reality, Boulder, CO: Emstco Press, 312 pp., $19.95 paper. Retirement is not what it used to be. Michael K. Stein, in his groundbreaking book, puts it to the lay reader...

Getting and Spending.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Strasser, Susan, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt, eds. 1998. Getting and Spending, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 477 pp., $59.95 ($21.95 paper). Getting and Spending is the result of a 1995 conference of primarily...

The Psychology of Saving: A Study on Economic Psychology.(Review)
June 22, 2000... W[ddot{a}]rneryd, Karl-Erik. 1999. The Psychology of Saving: A Study on Economic Psychology, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 389 pp., $90. Saving research has been dominated by economists who focus attention on...