All sessions will take place in Central Daylight Time!
POSTER PRESENTATIONS:
Poster presentations are available to view from May 18 through May 23 via ACCI’s (unlisted) YouTube Channel Poster Playlist sent out with the Zoom meeting room links to all attendees.
Poster are listed in this schedule on the last day at 6 PM so they appear at the end. Please scroll to the end to find the poster numbers, titles, descriptions, and presenters.
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Hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts are a way to cover financial needs. However, overuse of hardship withdrawal could have detrimental impact on retirement asset accumulation. The IRS has recently announced a reduction in restrictions on hardship withdrawals starting January 2020, making them more attractive. Therefore, research on factors related to one's decision of hardship withdrawal is needed. The objective of this study is to examine hardship withdrawal, focusing on its relationship to financial knowledge. Logistic analysis was conducted to test how subjective and objective financial knowledge is related to hardship withdrawal decision. To further examine the impact of the financial knowledge, categorical variables were created based on the combination of two financial knowledge measures and tested.
