Stories indexed under: Consumer science
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- UW-Madison partners in $5 million grant to study philanthropy Dec. 10, 2012 The Science of Philanthropy Initiative (SPI), a collaboration of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Chicago and Georgia State University, has received a $5 million grant that will be used to explore the motives of philanthropy and lead to new development strategies.
- Federal grant to bolster consumer financial education at UW-Madison Sept. 30, 2010 The Social Security Administration has awarded $3.1 million to support research on financial education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Delving into the murky metrics of financial risk
Feb. 25, 2009
The way J. Michael Collins sees it, United States consumers aren’t necessarily less informed about financial risk than consumers from other industrialized nations. What Americans do have, however, are an abundance of ways to screw up.