Personal Finance and the Rush to Competence:
Financial Literacy Education in the U.S.
Lois A. Vitt, Project Director
Carol Anderson, Jamie Kent, Deanna M. Lyter, Jurg K. Siegenthaler, Jeremy Ward

Funded by Fannie Mae Foundation
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Values-Centered Financial Education:
Understanding Cultural Influences
on Learners' Financial Behaviors
by Lois A. Vitt, Ph.D.

Format: PDF
Pub. Date: 2009
Funded by: National Endowment for Financial Education

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Encyclopedia of Retirement and Finance
Lois A. Vitt, Editor-in-Chief

Consulting Editors:
E. Craig MacBean and Jurg K. Siegenthaler
Associate Editors:
Jamie Losikoff-Kent, Candace D. Jenkins, Mary Helen McSweeney, Julie Overton, Sandra L. Reynolds, M. Shelton Smith, Denise Talbot-White
Managing Editors: Ingrid Carlson, Jay Schweig
Introduction by: Dallas L. Salisbury
Forward by: Yung-Ping Chen.
ISBN: 0-313-32495-6

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Goodbye to Complacency:
Financial Literacy Education in the U.S. 2000-2005
Co-Published by ISFS and AARP

Goodbye to Complacency is an update to Personal Finance and the Rush to Competence. The update was commissioned and prepared for the AARP. The report was presented at the 2005 US-UK Dialogue on Pensions, July 19-21, 2005, Washington, DC, United States.

The full report is not available as a bound text, but may be downloaded.

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You and Your Money:
A No-Stress Guide to Becoming Financially Fit
by Lois A. Vitt, Karen L. Murrell

Format: Paperback, 336pp
Pub. Date: April, 2007
Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall Books
ISBN: 0131003100

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10 Secrets to Successful Home Buying and Selling
By Lois A. Vitt, Ph.D.

Format: Paperback, 224pp
Pub. Date: November 2004
Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall Books
ISBN: 0131455001

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Encyclopedia of Financial Gerontology
Lois A. Vitt and Jurg K. Siegenthaler, Editors-in-Chief

Consulting Editors: Neal E. Cutler and Stephen M. Golant
Associate Editors: Ann S. Reilly, Linda A. Siegenthaler,  
    Charlotte H. Twombly, Thomas M. Wootten
Introduction by: Yung-Ping Chen.
LC 95-20793: ISBN 0-313-28549-7

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