NFI Fellow

Angela Lyons, Ph.D.

Angela Lyons is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin.  Her research focuses on issues related to household economics, family finance, and financial education and program evaluation.  Her current research examines issues related to household liquidity and credit access, health and financial strain, delinquency and bankruptcy, gender and marital differences in household financial decisions, and the credit usage and financial education needs of young adults.  Dr. Lyons has been identified by the U.S. Government Accountability Office as one of twenty-three national leaders in financial education and was invited to participate in the U.S. Comptroller General’s forum in 2004 on “Improving Financial Literacy: The Role of the Federal Government.”  In 2003, she presented testimony on the importance of financial literacy for young adults before the Subcommittee on Education and the Workforce for the U.S. House of Representatives.  In 2002, she was a delegate to the National Summit on Retirement Savings in Washington, D.C.   Recently, she served as a consultant to the Executive Office of the U.S. Trustees providing expertise on the debtor education component of the bankruptcy reform law.

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Topic:  Financial Literacy

Subtopic: Financial Education and Planning,Consumer Protection, Asset and Debt Management

Category: Working Paper