Financial Well-Being in the United States

Authors

Alexis Langdon, Fort Hays State UniversityFollow
Sam Schreyer, Fort Hays State UniversityFollow

Classification

Empirical Undergraduate

Abstract

The goal of our research project is to discover the factors that contribute to financial well-being in the United States. We used an interaction term to see how the effect of marriage on financial well-being changes by gender. We found that the socio-economic variables were statistically significant in explaining the financial well-being score. The financial skills score allowed us to control for additional factors that are subjective assessments from respondents. The interaction term is statistically significant and illustrates that women of all marital statuses have lower financial well-being scores than men of the same marital status.

Department/Program

Economics, Finance, & Accounting

Submission Type

online only poster

DOI

10.58809/UPDI4766

Date

4-22-2020

Rights

Copyright the Author(s)

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Recommended Citation

Langdon, Alexis and Schreyer, Sam (2020) "Financial Well-Being in the United States," SACAD: John Heinrichs Scholarly and Creative Activity Days: Vol. 2020, Article 47.
DOI: 10.58809/UPDI4766
Available at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sacad/vol2020/iss2020/47