Debt aversion and the demand for loans for postsecondary education

Public Finance Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 233-262

  Eckel, Catherine C ^a   Johnson, Cathleen ^b   Montmarquette, Claude ^b   Rojas, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b CIRANO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Debt aversion; Field experiment; Human capital investment; Postsecondary education; Risk aversion; Time preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847074171     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142106292774     Document Type: Article

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