Yoon Lee

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services

Human Development and Family Studies

Dr. Yoon Lee is a professor, in the Department of Human Development and
Family Studies, College of Education and Human Services at Utah State
University. She received her doctoral degree in consumer and family
economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1995 and MS in
family ecology from the University of Utah in 1990. Dr. Lee received the
1997 Dissertation Award from the American Councils on Consumer
Interests. She received her doctoral degree in consumer and family
economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1995 and MS in
family ecology from the University of Utah in 1990.Dr. Lee received the
1997 Dissertation Award from the American Councils on Consumer
Interests. Dr. Lee has developed two coherent research themes: Family
Finance and Family Business. Her Family Finance research primarily
centers on financial behavior and family economic issues, with an
emphasis on young adults, women, the elderly, and baby boomers. She is
particularly interested in household savings and debt behavior, retirement
preparedness of near-retirees, and economic well-being of older adults. Dr.
Lee’s secondary research focus on business success and management
strategies in family-owned businesses. Dr. Lee’s current ongoing research
on individual and family financial behavior include “financial capability and
emergency saving of young adults, and “loan type and debt delinquency
among millennial and non-millennial households.” In the family business
research program, she is conducting research on small business survival
and demise following natural disasters. Dr. Lee is currently working on a
project on family-owned business entitled “management of online
technology and small family business performance.”