In Sickness and in Debt: Do Mounting Medical Bills Predict Payday Loan Debt?

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 518-531

  Bickham, Trey ^a   Lim, Younghee ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

consumer well being; homeownership; medical bills; payday loans debt; student loan debt

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BANKRUPTCY; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; INCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 84937216239     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2015.1038410     Document Type: Article

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