What's in a score? Differences in consumers' credit knowledge using OLS and quantile regressions

Journal of Consumer Affairs

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-249

  Lyons, Angela C ^a   Rachlis, Mitchell ^b   Scherpf, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548661948     PISSN: 00220078     EISSN: 17456606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6606.2007.00079.x     Document Type: Article

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