CDR and Cities Theme seminar - Caezilia Loibl: "Financial vulnerability in older age in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands"

Abstract:

This study is based on in-depth interviews and online surveys of financially fragile older adults in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands (N=1,072). We investigate the relationship of financial distress in older age with material deprivation and social isolation. This research was funded through a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship of the European Commission, and was conducted in collaboration with Professors Wändi Bruine de Bruin and Barbara Summers, and Research Fellow Simon McNair of the Centre for Decision Research at Leeds University Business School.

About the speaker:

Caezilia Loibl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at The Ohio State University. She is interested in the financial decisions of families and also on the evaluation of public policy. Caezilia teaches courses on personal finance in the undergraduate financial planning program and behavioral aspects of consumer financial decision-making in the graduate program.

Caezilia further holds an appointment as State Specialist for OSU Extension. She established its housing counseling services, including an AmeriCorps volunteer service, which collaborated with the Ohio Housing Finance Agency's Save the Dream Ohio foreclosure prevention programs. She further provides guidance for county-based financial literacy programs.