Payday Loan Use and Consumer Well-Being: What Consumers and Social Workers Need to Know About Payday Loans

Journal of Poverty

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 379-398

  Lim, Younghee ^a   Bickham, Trey ^a   Dinecola, Cassie M ^a   Broussard, Julia ^b   Weber, Brittany E ^c   Gregory, Alethia ^d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c New Orleans District Attorney s Office   (United States)

^d Policy and Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative financial services; consumer well being; financial fragility; payday loans; social work advocacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919678144     PISSN: 10875549     EISSN: 15407608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10875549.2014.951906     Document Type: Article

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