Highest Degree:
M.S. in Consumer Economics from Cornell University, 1974

Brief Bio:
Claudia Kerbel serves as the Director of Outreach for the University of Rhode Island Center for Personal Financial Education.  She provides leadership for the design, delivery and evaluation of the Center's educational programs and products, as well as general administration, marketing, and grant development.  Ms. Kerbel coordinates production and updates of the Center's flagship product, Getting Fiscally Fit, a nine-module educational program on CD-ROM and manages the Center's web site - www.gettingfiscallyfit.org.  Recently, she has participated in departmental research on personal financial behavior.  In 1997-98, she served as the Rhode Island representative to the Family and Consumer Sciences National Standards Project.   

Selected Publications (1995 to present):
Anderson, J. G. & Kerbel, C. (1998). Evaluation of Personal Financial
Finance Employee Education Programs Should Focus on the Impact upon Workers. In E.T. Garman, P.L. Camp, D.C.Bagwell, and J. Kim  (Eds.).Personal Finances and Worker Productivity 2(2) (pp.225-230). Roanoke, VA.

Anderson, J. G., Kerbel, C. & Xiao, J. (1997)  Workplace Personal
Financial Education, In E.T. Garman, J.E.Grable, and S. Joo (Eds.).
Personal Finances and Worker Productivity 1(1) (pp. 83-91). Roanoke, VA.

Kerbel, C. & Anderson, J.G. (2003).  Measuring the impact of workplace financial education.   Proceedings of the Association For Financial Counseling and Planning Education, 133.

Kerbel, C. (1999) Cross-Referencing National Standards for Family and
Consumer Sciences Education and Economic Education with the NEFE High School Financial Planning Programâ from the National Endowment for Financial Education.  Available: www.nefe.org/pages/educational.html

O’Neill, B., Xiao, J. Bristow, B., Brennan, P., & Kerbel, C. (2001).
Before and after: The perceived impact of the MONEY 2000 program upon participants’ personal finances, Consumer Interests Annual, 47.

O’Neill, B., Xiao, J. Bristow, B., Brennan, P. & Kerbel, C. (2001).
Childhood financial influences and perceived financial behavioral changes. AAFCS Research  Abstracts, 2001AAFCS Annual Meeting. Available: www.aafcs.org.

O’Neill, B., Xiao, J. Bristow, B., Brennan, P. & Kerbel, C. (2000).
MONEY 2000: Differences in perceptions among program participants. Journal of Consumer Education, 18, 35-42.

O’Neill, B., Xiao, J. Bristow, B., Brennan, P. & Kerbel, C. (2000).
MONEY 2000: Feedback from and impact on participants. Journal of Extension, 38(6). Available: www.joe.org.

O’Neill, B., Xiao, J. Bristow, B., Brennan, P. & Kerbel, C. (2000).
Perceived financial progress: Influence of demographic variables and
participation in MONEY 2000TM. Proceedings of the Association For
Financial Counseling and Planning Education, 33.

O’Neill, B., Xiao, J. Bristow, B., Brennan, P. & Kerbel, C. (2000).
Personal finance education: Preferred delivery methods and program
topics. The Forum for Family and Consumer Issues, 5(1): 27.
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/pub/2000/money_2000.html.

O’Neill, B., Xiao, J. Bristow, B., Brennan, P. & Kerbel, C.(2000).
Successful financial goal attainment: Perceived resources and obstacles. Financial Counseling and Planning, 11(1), 1-12.

Xiao, J., O’Neill, B., Prochaska, J., Kerbel, C., Bristow, B., &
Brennan, P. (2001) Application of the transtheoretical model of change
to financial behavior.  Consumer Interests Annual, 47. Available:
www.rce.rutgers.edu/money2000  (click on research paper).
 

Links:
www.gettingfiscallyfit.org