Journal of Consumer Affairs

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Volume 55, issue 4, 2021

Consumer wellbeing in Asia: Introduction to the special issue pp. 1205-1210

Jing Jian Xiao, Eunju Ko and May O. Lwin

Vanity and food waste: Empirical evidence from China pp. 1211-1225

Li Gao, Yingdan Mei, Xiaohan Yang, Congyu Zhao and Daimeng Li

Economic hardship and neighborhood diversity: Influences on consumer well‐being pp. 1226-1248

Chan‐Hoong Leong, Soo Jiuan Tan, Elizabeth A. Minton and Siok Kuan Tambyah

The Price of Hope—Insights into rhino horn consumption in health‐related contexts in Vietnam pp. 1249-1273

Hieu P. Nguyen, Hanh T. M. Nguyen and Huyen T. Pham

Understanding digital consumers' well‐being in Asia: The moderating roles of digital natives and privacy concerns pp. 1274-1291

Youshin Kwak, Jeeyeon Kim, Yeolib Kim and Jeonghye Choi

Impact of environmental and health consciousness on ecological consumption intention: The moderating effects of haze and self‐competence pp. 1292-1305

Zhang Hao and Qi Chenyue

Chinese Millenials' happiness and materialism: Explanations from two life‐course theories, self‐esteem, and money‐attitudes pp. 1306-1332

Helen Inseng Duh, Hong Yu and Yuefeng Ni

Recipients' happiness in prosocial spending: The role of social ties pp. 1333-1351

Wuke Zhang, Jing Pan, Jiaoyang Liu, Yuchen Zhang and Mingliang Chen

Social media use and subjective well‐being among middle‐aged consumers in Korea: Mediation model of social capital moderated by disability pp. 1352-1372

Hyesun Hwang and Su‐Jung Nam

The influence of time, resource, and gender ideology on the division of domestic work in Korea pp. 1373-1397

Soomin Ryu and Jinhee Kim

Who has a cushion? The interactive effect of social exclusion and gender on fixed savings pp. 1398-1415

Lu Yang, Yuhuang Zheng and Rui Chen

Are Indian professional women financially literate and prepared for retirement? pp. 1416-1441

H. Kent Baker, Sweta Tomar, Satish Kumar and Deepak Verma

Financial capability and investment management of Chinese households: An application of hybrid item response theory pp. 1442-1463

Tsun‐Feng Chiang

Financial literacy and household asset allocation: Evidence from micro‐data in China pp. 1464-1488

Xiaomeng Lu, Jingna Xiao and Yu Wu

Household savings and subjective wellbeing: Evidence from China pp. 1489-1504

Fuzhong Chen, Guohai Jiang and Mengyi Gu

Examining gender differences in predictors of financial satisfaction: Evidence from Taiwan pp. 1505-1539

Derek T. Tharp and Elizabeth J. Parks‐Stamm

House price expectations, mortgages, and subjective well‐being in urban China pp. 1540-1562

Zhifang Su, Jr‐Tsung Huang and Arthur Jin Lin

Soft landings: Extending the cushion hypothesis to financial well‐being in collectivistic cultures pp. 1563-1590

Dee Warmath, Pan‐Ju Chen, John Grable and Eun Jin Kwak

Borrowing channels, purposes, and household investment and consumption: evidence from Nepal pp. 1591-1613

Olga Kondratjeva

The effects of online consumer credit on household consumption level and structure: Evidence from China pp. 1614-1632

Jie Li, Quanyun Song, Yu Wu and Bihong Huang

Supermarket competence in emergent markets: Conceptualization, measurement, effects, and policy implications pp. 1633-1659

Klaus G. Grunert, Yanfeng Zhou, Marija Banovic and Natascha Loebnitz

When taking action means accepting responsibility: Omission bias predicts parents' reluctance to vaccinate due to greater anticipated culpability for negative side effects pp. 1660-1681

Gary D. Sherman, Beth Vallen, Stacey R. Finkelstein, Paul M. Connell, Wendy Attaya Boland and Kristen Feemster

Physical risk messaging enhances favorable attitudes toward mask wearing pp. 1682-1690

Marie A. Yeh, Ann M. Mirabito and Stacey R. Finkelstein

Consumer marketplaces and self‐sufficiency: Meeting consumption needs in community pp. 1691-1711

Stephen G. Saunders, Srinivas Sridharan, Dani J. Barrington, Regina Souter, Katherine F. Shields, Semisi Meo and Jamie K. Bartram

Volume 55, issue 3, 2021

Connecting with the future: The role of science fiction movies in helping consumers understand privacy‐technology trade‐offs pp. 737-762

George R. Milne, Begum Kaplan, Kristen L. Walker and Larry Zacharias

How does the affordable care act Medicaid expansion affect cigarette consumption?—The mechanism and heterogeneity pp. 763-791

Lingxiao Wang, Yuqing Zheng and Steven C. Buck

Motivating sustainable behaviors: The role of religiosity in a cross‐cultural context pp. 792-820

Begum Kaplan and Easwar S. Iyer

Religion and informational influence: Evidence from individual tax behavior in the U.S pp. 821-846

Didem Kurt and Ahmet C. Kurt

Let your past define your future? How recalling successful financial experiences can increase beliefs of self‐efficacy in financial planning pp. 847-871

Arvid O. I. Hoffmann and Daria Plotkina

The impact of state earned income tax credit increases on material and medical hardship pp. 872-910

Olga Kondratjeva, Stephen P. Roll, Mathieu Despard and Michal Grinstein‐Weiss

Toward a “human being to commodity model” as an explanation for men's violent, sexual consumption of women pp. 911-938

Marie A. Yeh, Meike Eilert, Aphrodite Vlahos, Stacey Menzel Baker and Tony Stovall

On the association of debt attitudes with socioeconomic characteristics and financial behaviors pp. 939-966

Cäzilia Loibl, Jodi Letkiewicz, Simon McNair, Barbara Summers and Wändi Bruine de Bruin

Good credit, bad credit: The differential role of the sources of debt in life satisfaction pp. 967-994

Piotr Bialowolski and Dorota Weziak‐Bialowolska

Financial institution objectives and auto loan pricing: Evidence from the survey of consumer finances pp. 995-1039

Jordan van Rijn, Shuwei Zeng and Paul Hellman

The missing role of moral values in anti‐vaping messaging pp. 1040-1061

Elizabeth A. Minton and Paige Gardiner

Energy‐related financial literacy and electricity consumption: Survey‐based evidence from Finland pp. 1062-1089

Panu Kalmi, Gianluca Trotta and Andrius Kazukauskas

Building relationships: Is this the answer to effective nutrition policy formulation? pp. 1090-1110

Ariadne Beatrice Kapetanaki, Nektarios Tzempelikos and Sue Vaux Halliday

No longer green with envy: Objectifying and destroying negative consumer emotions pp. 1111-1138

Primidya K. M. Soesilo, Maureen L. Morrin and Nese Nur Yazgan Onuklu

Whole grain claims: Do they matter? pp. 1139-1149

Gail M. Zank and Karen H. Smith

Cannabis packaging: An opportunity for facilitating informed decisions pp. 1150-1168

Mohammed Al‐Hamdani, Kayla M. Joyce, Tristan Park, Megan E. Cowie and Sherry H. Stewart

The shifting landscape of cannabis legalization: Potential benefits and regulatory perspectives pp. 1169-1177

Christopher L. Newman, Marlys J. Mason and Jeff Langenderfer

Reimagining the Global South: Consumer welfare and public policy insights from the United States' Gulf Coast pp. 1178-1199

Charlene A. Dadzie

Volume 55, issue 2, 2021

Establishing a tradition of research on race and consumers in the marketplace: A tribute to the late Dr. Geraldine Henderson and the late Dr. Jerome Williams pp. 353-355

Vanessa Perry and Frederick F. Wherry

Anti‐black currents in consumer affairs: An introduction to the special issue pp. 356-365

Frederick F. Wherry and Vanessa Perry

Digital redlining and the fintech marketplace: Evidence from US zip codes pp. 366-388

Terri Friedline and Zibei Chen

What accounts for racial and ethnic differences in credit use? pp. 389-416

Ryan M. Goodstein, Alicia Lloro, Sherrie L.W. Rhine and Jeffrey M. Weinstein

Racialization of peer‐to‐peer transactions: Inequality and barriers to legitimacy pp. 417-444

Steven Shepherd and Ted Matherly

Does history really matter: Investigating historical branded executions' effects on contemporary consumer attitudes pp. 445-463

Roland L. Leak, Kimberly R. McNeil and David Crockett

Racial/ethnic differences in holding a retirement saving motive: A decomposition analysis pp. 464-482

Kyoung Tae Kim, Soo Hyun Cho and Sharon A. DeVaney

Dreaming in Black: Middle‐class Blacks' aspirational consumption pp. 483-503

Cassi Pittman Claytor

Impact of consumer animosity, boycott participation, boycott motivation, and product judgment on purchase readiness or aversion of Kurdish consumers in Iraq pp. 504-523

Bayad Jamal Ali

Social service provider's perceptions of financial education for adults with mental illness and/or cognitive impairments pp. 524-541

Carol A. Janney, Erica Tobe, Scott Matteson and Brenda Long

Research note: Age, retirement, and intertemporal resource decision ability pp. 542-555

Craig Carpenter, Scott Loveridge and Maureen Mickus

Life lessons: Leaving home and financial capability of young adults pp. 556-579

Kayla Czar, Aaron Gilbert and Ayesha Scott

Estimation of price and income elasticity of residential water demand in the Czech Republic over three decades pp. 580-608

Milan Ščasný and Šarlota Smutná

Identifying and selecting effective graphic health warnings to prevent perceptual wearout on tobacco packaging and in advertising pp. 609-621

Scot Burton, J. Craig Andrews and Richard G. Netemeyer

Sustained credit card borrowing pp. 622-653

Daniel Grodzicki and Sergei Koulayev

The role of vending channels in marketing: A systematic review and taxonomy of studies pp. 654-679

Dobromir Stoyanov

Financial knowledge and trust in financial institutions pp. 680-714

Carin Cruijsen, Jakob de Haan and Ria Roerink

Consumer resource integration in the subsistence marketplace: A comparative study of urban and rural consumers pp. 715-733

Wasana Jayawickramarathna, Rajendra Mulye, Kaleel Rahman and Tim Fry

Volume 55, issue 1, 2021

Introduction to the special section on subsistence marketplaces pp. 3-7

Madhubalan Viswanathan, Ronika Chakrabarti, Paul Ingenbleek and Srinivas Venugopal

Consumer well‐being and social responsibility of subsistence entrepreneurs in subsistence marketplace pp. 8-30

Fara Azmat, Ramanie Samaratunge and Ahmed Ferdous

The institutional work of a social enterprise operating in a subsistence marketplace: Using the business model as a market‐shaping tool pp. 31-58

Hussein Faruque Aly, Katy Mason and Winfred Onyas

Quality‐of‐life as chronotopefication and futurization: Subsistence consumer experiences in India pp. 59-86

Sujit Raghunathrao Jagadale, Himadri Roy‐Chaudhuri and Djavlonbek Kadirov

Extreme exclusion and relative deprivation in subsistence marketplaces: A study in a refugee settlement in Nakivale, Uganda pp. 87-117

Madhubalan Viswanathan, Robert Alfonso Arias and Arun Sreekumar

Envisioning a community‐centric approach to impact assessments in subsistence marketplaces pp. 118-133

Srinivas Venugopal

Why art matters: Artistic consumer‐entrepreneurship in subsistence marketplaces pp. 134-150

Ronika Chakrabarti

Unequal but essential: How subsistence consumer–entrepreneurs negotiate unprecedented shock with extraordinary resilience during COVID‐19 pp. 151-178

Madhubalan Viswanathan, Hussein Faruque Aly, Ronald Duncan and Namrata Mandhan

Marketplace literacy education and coping behaviors among subsistence consumer–entrepreneurs during demonetization in India pp. 179-202

Madhubalan Viswanathan, Saravana Jaikumar, Arun Sreekumar and Shantanu Dutta

U.S. health insurance marketplace taxonomy and the influence of labeling on consumer perception of plan suitability pp. 203-231

Christopher Hickey and Derek T. Tharp

Acquisition mode and credit card overspending behavior: An empirical analysis of the credit card industry pp. 232-253

Yaxin Ming, Chenxi Li and Jing (Elaine) Chen

Building toward a solid foundation: The effect of thinking concretely about the future pp. 254-273

Stacie F. Waites, Adam Farmer and Carol L. Esmark Jones

Exploring the effects of for‐profit and nonprofit size congruency: An exchange perspective on cause‐related marketing pp. 274-292

Anne Hamby, Niusha Jones and Guohong Yu

Five decades of the Journal of Consumer Affairs: A bibliometric analysis pp. 293-331

H. Kent Baker, Satish Kumar and Nitesh Pandey

Is bank staff interaction associated with customer saving behavior in banks? pp. 332-350

Julie Birkenmaier and Qiang John Fu