Household debt and attitudes toward risk

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 283-304

  Brown, Sarah ^a   Garino, Gaia ^b   Taylor, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Debt; Risk attitudes; Risk preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877135994     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2012.00506.x     Document Type: Article

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