A three-item likert scale designed to measure the degree to which a consumer believes that it is typical for there to be insufficient funds to cover his or her needs.
Talukdar, Debabrata (2008), “Cost of Being Poor: Retail Price and Consumer Price Search Differences across Inner- City and Suburban Neighborhoods,” Journal of Consumer Research, 35 (3), 457-471.
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