This paper uses data from the 2002-2005-2008 waves of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF) to investigate whether debts burdens hamper people's health. Several measures of debt strain are constructed, including debt-to-income ratios, the existence of debt arrears and amounts of outstanding debts. The paper also differentiates between mortgage and non-mortgage debts and explores the role of social norm effects in the debt-health relationship. The results, based on a random effects model extended to include a Mundlak term, show that nonmortgage debt payments and debt arrears affect significantly people's health. Furthermore, mild social norm effects are detected, according to which being less indebted than the reference gro...
After having defined the concepts of debt, over indebtedness and spiral of overindebtedness, I exami...
We evaluate the impact of the double-dip Spanish recession (2008 2014) on self-rated health. We anal...
Treball Final de Grau en Economia. Codi: EC1049. Curs academic: 2014-2015The last decade has witness...
We investigate the relationship between aggregate household debt and aggregate health outcomes acros...
Debt problems in the UK have recently become much more severe, especially for the lowest income grou...
We investigate the relationship between aggregate household debt and aggregate health outcomes acros...
This paper proposes a comprehensive explanatory model to explain both causes and consequences of ove...
Household borrowing is a key element for consumption-smoothing over the life cycle. However, over-in...
[Full text of this paper is not available in the UHRA]Excess consumer indebtedness has long been ass...
Average household debt in America has tripled in the past 30 years. Much of this burden is unequally...
Treball Final de Grau en Economia. Codi: EC1049. Curs acadèmic: 2016/2017.This paper analyses the im...
This paper aims at analysing the impact of households mortgage debt on consumption, as well as the d...
Over-indebtedness is a multi-faced phenomenon with social, economic, legal and political aspects. In...
Household debt is rising throughout Sweden, and its health effects are poorly understood. This thesi...
Debt-induced crises, including the subprime, are usually attributed exclusively to supply-side facto...
After having defined the concepts of debt, over indebtedness and spiral of overindebtedness, I exami...
We evaluate the impact of the double-dip Spanish recession (2008 2014) on self-rated health. We anal...
Treball Final de Grau en Economia. Codi: EC1049. Curs academic: 2014-2015The last decade has witness...
We investigate the relationship between aggregate household debt and aggregate health outcomes acros...
Debt problems in the UK have recently become much more severe, especially for the lowest income grou...
We investigate the relationship between aggregate household debt and aggregate health outcomes acros...
This paper proposes a comprehensive explanatory model to explain both causes and consequences of ove...
Household borrowing is a key element for consumption-smoothing over the life cycle. However, over-in...
[Full text of this paper is not available in the UHRA]Excess consumer indebtedness has long been ass...
Average household debt in America has tripled in the past 30 years. Much of this burden is unequally...
Treball Final de Grau en Economia. Codi: EC1049. Curs acadèmic: 2016/2017.This paper analyses the im...
This paper aims at analysing the impact of households mortgage debt on consumption, as well as the d...
Over-indebtedness is a multi-faced phenomenon with social, economic, legal and political aspects. In...
Household debt is rising throughout Sweden, and its health effects are poorly understood. This thesi...
Debt-induced crises, including the subprime, are usually attributed exclusively to supply-side facto...
After having defined the concepts of debt, over indebtedness and spiral of overindebtedness, I exami...
We evaluate the impact of the double-dip Spanish recession (2008 2014) on self-rated health. We anal...
Treball Final de Grau en Economia. Codi: EC1049. Curs academic: 2014-2015The last decade has witness...