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Family Economic Well-Being

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Family economic well-being refers to a family economic status that has sustainably adequate economic resources to live a comfortable life. This chapter first proposes a conceptual framework to describe family economic well-being. Then it reviews relevant research on objective and subjective measures of family economic well-being such as family income, expenditure, debt, asset, and financial satisfaction. Directions for future research are suggested at the end of the chapter.

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