2022 Recipients

Megan McCoy, Catherine Walker O'Neal, Jay Mancini, Joseph Goetz, Jerry Gale
“Financial boundary ambiguity among military spouses."

J.S. Wikle, Chelom Leavitt, Jeremy Yorgason, Jeff Dew, Heather Johnson

"The protective role of couple communication in moderating negative associations between financial stress and sexual outcomes for newlyweds. Journal of Family and Economic Issues"

Purpose

The Best Family Financial Well-Being Paper of the Year Award is a way to recognize outstanding scholarship in family economics and to increase awareness of and participation in NCFR’s Family Financial Well-Being Focus Group.

Award

The authors of the winning paper each receive a certificate. The award is presented at the Family Financial Well-Being Focus Group meeting at the NCFR Annual Conference.

Criteria

• Papers must be fully published (i.e. not merely online advance articles) in one of the peer-reviewed journals included on a list maintained by the Family Financial Well-Being Focus Group and in the calendar year prior to the conference.
• Acceptable formats include empirical papers, reviews, and theory papers.
• At least one author of the research article must be a member of NCFR.

Nomination/application process

Family Financial Well-Being Focus Group members make nominations for best papers in each journal that represent high-quality scholarship and which substantively address both family and economic/financial content. NCFR verifies current membership of all authors on nominated papers. Nominated papers that qualify are ranked by a smaller panel of judges affiliated with the focus group and the highest-ranked paper wins the award. Committee chairs notify the first author and coordinate receipt of the award.

Deadlines

June 1: Nomination deadline. Submit all materials to the Family Financial Well-Being Focus Group co-chairs Clinton G. Gudmunson and Xiaohui "Sophie" Li.
July 31: The recipient is notified by this date

Committee structure

The co-chairs of the Family Financial Well-Being Focus Group serve as committee chairs. Other committee members will be members of the Family Financial Well-Being Focus Group who volunteer, or when needed, by special invitation from a co-chair.