The role of middle-class status in payday loan borrowing: A multivariate approach

Social Work (United States)

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 329-337

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

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Policy and Research Group   (United States)

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

Author keywords

credit; middle class; payday loans; poverty; regression

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCOME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

BANKRUPTCY; BUDGETS; ECONOMICS; HOUSING; HUMANS; INCOME; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OWNERSHIP; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921983904     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: 15456846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/swu033     Document Type: Article

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