Measuring Financial Capability and its Determinants Using Survey Data

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-314

  Taylor, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BHPS; Financial capability; Financial distress; Financial problems; Panel data

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PANEL DATA; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EID: 79953167466     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9681-9     Document Type: Article

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