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The effects of selected family characteristics on interrelated components of household asset portfolios over a three-year time period were investigated. Specifically, this study attempted to conceptually define mental accounts, to identify own-adjustment and cross-adjustment characteristics of these mental accounts, to explore influences of selected family characteristics on these mental accounts, and to examine substantial effects of income on family portfolio behavior. Based on the behavioral life-cycle hypothesis, consumer demand theory, household production theory, and the stock adjustment hypothesis, a family portfolio behavior model was formulated for studying family saving behavior as reflected in household asset portfolios. A tobit model was utilized to estimate own- and cross-adjustment coefficients of the portfolio components, and short-term and equilibrium effects of family characteristics. The data were from the Survey of Consumer Finances conducted in 1983 and 1986. Findings strongly support the mental account hierarchy hypothesis which was reflected in the own- and cross-adjustment coefficients estimated. In addition, family income and education of the household head showed positive influences on various mental accounts. Age of the household head, employment status, family life cycle stage, house mortgage, home value, other assets, and other debts showed effects on some mental accounts. Income had a substantial influence on family portfolio behavior. The behavior of middle-income families was more consistent with the hypothesis of a mental account hierarchy than the other income groups, which implies diverse preferences for asset characteristics and varying financial needs of families at different income levels. This study has contributed to the body of knowledge of family saving behavior and increased the understanding of adaptivity and dynamics of family saving behavior. The research findings could be utilized by family finance educators and consultants, financial service marketers, and public policy makers in working successfully with different family types, marketing various financial instruments, and designing effective savings policies. In addition, this study has provided empirical evidence to assess existing theoretical models and to inspire the building of new theories. / Graduation date: 1992

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The primary considerations in the administration of public assistance are (a) the method by which the need of a recipient is determined, and (b) what level of living the assistance should provide for the recipient. The purpose of this study has been to analyze the present policies for evaluating financial need in the mothers' allowances and the social assistance programs in British Columbia. The adjustment of an assistance grant to supplement a recipient's resources up to an amount that will permit the maintenance of health and decency, involves the use of accurate, efficient, and equitable administrative policies. The standard budget is accepted in this study as being the most effective administrative device for the determination of need and the amount of the grant. The budget standards formulated in this study include food, clothing and personal items. The content of the food standard and its pricing is the work of the Nutrition Service of the Vancouver Metropolitan Health Committee. The content of the clothing budget is developed from the Toronto Welfare Council's study, A Guide to Family Spending, (1949). Several changes are made to simplify this standard as compared with the Toronto allowances. The personal items standard is compiled from the writer's own judgement of the content, replacement and prices for minimum personal needs. Standards for other requirements are reviewed, and the methods by which adequate allowances could be calculated for these more difficult budget items are discussed; but no study of prices is made. The use of a standard budget in the administration of public assistance is of little value unless proper administrative policies are used to define how these standards should be used, and also to determine accurately the amount of resources available to a recipient. An evaluative survey of the present policies for determining need serves to show certain discrepancies and requirements in the administrative direction in them. Three areas in particular are given consideration, (a) the exemptions and deductions method of evaluating a recipient's resources; in some ways this is a contradictory policy and may have no relationship to the need of the recipient, (b) the stress that is placed upon the group method of allowance may result in an unrealistic determination of need, (c) the present policy is incomplete, and this raises problems of interpretation. The study leads to four major suggestions: (a) A revision of the present method for determining need seems warranted. (b) This revision should include the use of the standard budget, and should provide for more specific policies on evaluating resources, (c) The group method of allowance is recommended as a special application of the budget deficit method, which ordinarily uses individual allowances, (d) A study committee should be appointed by the Vancouver Community Chest and Council to review the need for a Vancouver Minimum Standard Budget, and continue with its formulation if deemed necessary. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1962 D54

Graduation date: 1930

Este texto dissertativo trata do tema da educação financeira no Brasil. Por se considerá-la um processo de aquisição conceitual, com objetivos e princípios, ela necessita de comprometimento de práticas regulares para organizar receitas, despesas e investimentos. Dentre elas está o orçamento familiar, uma ferramenta de gerenciamento que se desdobra em outras práticas, as quais podem ou não exigir meios como o papel, o lápis, borracha, caneta, planilhas e programas informatizados. Neste universo acrescentam-se outros fatores como a questão cultural das crenças, da busca pela felicidade, da certeza, das perdas, dos ganhos, das fantasias e da racionalidade. Com a industrialização e as técnicas de venda, o mundo transformou as pessoas em consumidoras de tecnologia e de ciência. Produtos como o automóvel e o telefone celular com múltiplas funções são objetos de desejo que interferem na rotina das pessoas. Dada a crescente necessidade de tomar decisões de curto, médio e longo prazo para as finanças pessoais, esta dissertação teve como objetivo analisar ações de educação financeira organizadas na forma de oficinas que compreendessem diferentes maneiras de gerir as finanças pessoais. A delimitação espacial foi o espaço escolar (Escola Terra Firme) e o acadêmico (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR – câmpus Curitiba) durante os anos de 2015 e 2016, onde foram realizadas oficinas de educação financeira. A metodologia foi de natureza qualitativa, com aplicação de questionário e entrevistas informais. Primou-se pela ideia de processo de apropriação de significados e princípios que faz parte do conceito de educação financeira como o orçamento, a aquisição de produtos financeiros (seguros, aposentadoria), riscos, bem estar financeiro, relações que se estabelecem nos atos de consumir, imparcialidade em julgamentos, eficiência, e consciência do futuro. Os resultados apontam que a organização das finanças pessoais depende de atitudes e comportamentos que provêm da racionalidade e das emoções. O dinheiro é um meio de realizar transações que necessita ser administrado, e por isso as pessoas precisam de conhecimentos e princípios básicos para a gestão dos recursos. A conclusão do trabalho mostra, considerando os diferentes perfis de comportamento financeiro, é importante adicionar aos saberes e conhecimentos, em especial do público que atua em instituições de ensino, orientações para manter as receitas maiores que as despesas e assim poder planejar um futuro com mais qualidade de vida. / This text handles the subject of the financial education in Brazil. Considered as a process of conceptual acquisition, with objectives and principles, it needs the commitment of regular practices to organize revenues, expenses and investments. Among them is the family budget, a management tool which branches into other practices that can require or not means like paper, pencil, eraser, pen, spreadsheets and computer programs. Other factors like the cultural issue of beliefs, the search of happiness, the certainty, the losses, the gains, the fantasies and the rationality were important to this universe. With industrialization and the new sales techniques, the world changed people into consumers of technology and science. Products like the automobile and the cell phone, with its multiple functions are objects of desire that interfere with people routine. Due the increasing necessity of taking short, middle and long-term decisions for personal finances, the objective of this dissertation was to analyze the actions of financial education organized in workshops that sought to comprehend different ways to manage the personal finances. The spatial delimitation was the school (Terra Firme School) and the academic (Federal University of Technology - Paraná – UTFPR Campus Curitiba) area, where happened financial education’s workshops during 2015 and 2016. The methodology was of qualitative nature, with the application of questionnaires and informal interviews. The dissertation distinguished itself by the idea of appropriation process of meanings and principles that is part of a financial education concept like estimate, the acquisition of financial products (insurances, retirement), risks, financial wellbeing, relations established on consumption acts, impartiality on judgements, efficiency and consciousness about the future. The findings highlight that the organization of personal finances depends on the attitudes and behavior, which originate from rationality and emotions. The money is a way of realizing transactions that needs to be administrated, and that is the reason why people needs knowledge and basic principles to the management of resources. The conclusion shows that, considering the different financial behavior profiles, it is important to add to the knowledge, especially to the public of education institutes, orientations to keep the gains bigger than the losses and this way to be able to plan the future with more life quality.

Este texto dissertativo trata do tema da educação financeira no Brasil. Por se considerá-la um processo de aquisição conceitual, com objetivos e princípios, ela necessita de comprometimento de práticas regulares para organizar receitas, despesas e investimentos. Dentre elas está o orçamento familiar, uma ferramenta de gerenciamento que se desdobra em outras práticas, as quais podem ou não exigir meios como o papel, o lápis, borracha, caneta, planilhas e programas informatizados. Neste universo acrescentam-se outros fatores como a questão cultural das crenças, da busca pela felicidade, da certeza, das perdas, dos ganhos, das fantasias e da racionalidade. Com a industrialização e as técnicas de venda, o mundo transformou as pessoas em consumidoras de tecnologia e de ciência. Produtos como o automóvel e o telefone celular com múltiplas funções são objetos de desejo que interferem na rotina das pessoas. Dada a crescente necessidade de tomar decisões de curto, médio e longo prazo para as finanças pessoais, esta dissertação teve como objetivo analisar ações de educação financeira organizadas na forma de oficinas que compreendessem diferentes maneiras de gerir as finanças pessoais. A delimitação espacial foi o espaço escolar (Escola Terra Firme) e o acadêmico (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR – câmpus Curitiba) durante os anos de 2015 e 2016, onde foram realizadas oficinas de educação financeira. A metodologia foi de natureza qualitativa, com aplicação de questionário e entrevistas informais. Primou-se pela ideia de processo de apropriação de significados e princípios que faz parte do conceito de educação financeira como o orçamento, a aquisição de produtos financeiros (seguros, aposentadoria), riscos, bem estar financeiro, relações que se estabelecem nos atos de consumir, imparcialidade em julgamentos, eficiência, e consciência do futuro. Os resultados apontam que a organização das finanças pessoais depende de atitudes e comportamentos que provêm da racionalidade e das emoções. O dinheiro é um meio de realizar transações que necessita ser administrado, e por isso as pessoas precisam de conhecimentos e princípios básicos para a gestão dos recursos. A conclusão do trabalho mostra, considerando os diferentes perfis de comportamento financeiro, é importante adicionar aos saberes e conhecimentos, em especial do público que atua em instituições de ensino, orientações para manter as receitas maiores que as despesas e assim poder planejar um futuro com mais qualidade de vida. / This text handles the subject of the financial education in Brazil. Considered as a process of conceptual acquisition, with objectives and principles, it needs the commitment of regular practices to organize revenues, expenses and investments. Among them is the family budget, a management tool which branches into other practices that can require or not means like paper, pencil, eraser, pen, spreadsheets and computer programs. Other factors like the cultural issue of beliefs, the search of happiness, the certainty, the losses, the gains, the fantasies and the rationality were important to this universe. With industrialization and the new sales techniques, the world changed people into consumers of technology and science. Products like the automobile and the cell phone, with its multiple functions are objects of desire that interfere with people routine. Due the increasing necessity of taking short, middle and long-term decisions for personal finances, the objective of this dissertation was to analyze the actions of financial education organized in workshops that sought to comprehend different ways to manage the personal finances. The spatial delimitation was the school (Terra Firme School) and the academic (Federal University of Technology - Paraná – UTFPR Campus Curitiba) area, where happened financial education’s workshops during 2015 and 2016. The methodology was of qualitative nature, with the application of questionnaires and informal interviews. The dissertation distinguished itself by the idea of appropriation process of meanings and principles that is part of a financial education concept like estimate, the acquisition of financial products (insurances, retirement), risks, financial wellbeing, relations established on consumption acts, impartiality on judgements, efficiency and consciousness about the future. The findings highlight that the organization of personal finances depends on the attitudes and behavior, which originate from rationality and emotions. The money is a way of realizing transactions that needs to be administrated, and that is the reason why people needs knowledge and basic principles to the management of resources. The conclusion shows that, considering the different financial behavior profiles, it is important to add to the knowledge, especially to the public of education institutes, orientations to keep the gains bigger than the losses and this way to be able to plan the future with more life quality.