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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"consumer economics"”.
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Three essays on agricultural and consumer economics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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An analysis of the gender composition of the consumer economics major over time: a case study of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dramatic declines in the percent women in the Consumer Economics (CE) major at the University of Illinois – Urbana, from primarily female to primarily male after a merger with the Agricultural Economics Department, inspired an empirical study to document and explain the decline. Using aggregate …
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The impact of information on animal product consumption
Consumers' dietary preferences for animal products such as meat, dairy, and eggs carry a profound influence on environmental sustainability, public health, and animal rights. While shifting preferences towards plant products is important to many organizations working across those three fields, …
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Factors influencing functional literacy performance among adult basic education students
… literacy performance in community resources, consumer economics, government-and-law, and identification of facts and terms were accepted. An alternate hypothesis for each of the ten primary analyses suggested factors which have more utility in understanding functional literacy performance than …
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Understanding on-time mortgage payment history in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis: an application of the responsible financial actions index
… to the body of empirical literature related to consumer economics and personal financial planning providing insight and understanding for how financial outcomes can be improved through basic responsible financial actions. This has important implications for financial professionals, counselors, …
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Strategic Legitimacy Assessment: The Case of the Illinois livestock industry
This thesis presents a legitimacy assessment method. Three core elements constitute the basis of the method - the stakeholder figure, the legitimacy themes and the legitimacy bases. The analysis combines the deductive and inductive investigative approaches. The context for the legitimacy assessment …