Alegnta Felleke

Financial Capability and Family Wellbeing

Research, Policy, and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The financial and social vulnerability of low-income families with young children requires a thoughtful and multidimensional response. Much of the research in this area has been undertaken with insufficient attention to the social structures that serve as a foundation for poverty. Recent scholarship on financial capability, understood as a construct encompassing both financial knowledge and inclusion in the mainstream financial sector, provides the conceptual framework for this dissertation. One central purpose of the study is to examine the individual and interactive associations between financial knowledge, financial inclusion, and (1) money management, as well as (2) developmental resources for young children in low-income households. Study findings regarding financial inclusion suggest that owning a savings account appears to better explain money management and developmental resources for young children at home compared to owning a checking account. Both financial knowledge and financial inclusion seem to be more consistently linked with developmental resources for young children than with money management. Implications for policy, practice, and theory are thoroughly discussed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scholars' Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9786206768654
• ISBN-10: 6206768651
• Artikelnr.: 68965647

Autorenporträt

Dr. Felleke is a social work professor at Our Lady of the Lake University's Worden School of Social Service. His scholarship examines the impacts of social policy contexts on individual and family outcomes, with a particular emphasis on poverty, asset effects, financial capability, and the behavioral health of children in low-income families.