Individuals with extensive debt may be granted debt relief in court. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the … Danish debt relief program with data from court records linked to nationwide register data. Using event-study methods and … quasi-random assignment of applicants to court trustees with varying admission rates, we show that debt relief leads to a …

Individuals with extensive debt may be granted debt relief in court. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the … Danish debt relief program with data from court records linked to nationwide register data. Using event-study methods and … quasi-random assignment of applicants to court trustees with varying admission rates, we show that debt relief leads to a …

three sets of results. First, we find no impact of debt relief on credit access, utilization, and financial distress on … average. Second, we estimate that debt relief causes a moderate but statistically significant reduction in payment of existing … medical bills. Third, we find no effect of medical debt relief on mental health on average, with detrimental effects for some …

Many governments operate consumer debt relief programs, often timed to match the election cycle, but their political … effects are not well understood. We ask if debt relief can influence elections in democracies. Our motivating exercise is the … large debt relief program enacted in the Republic of Georgia that, similar to USA, affected every sixth voter. We estimate …

Developing countries have recently proved reluctant to participate in sovereign debt moratoria and debt relief … countries compare the net benefits of participating in a debt relief initiative now with the value of waiting to potentially … of ways in which participation in debt relief initiatives can be made more attractive to debtor countries. …

, conditional official grants and debt relief from both public and private sources. The article discusses the role of green bonds …, carbon offsets, grants and debt relief. Among these solutions, no single instrument appears to be right for all countries or …

We study the labor market and mental health impacts of debt relief among financially vulnerable individuals. We exploit … a cutoff rule used by a Dutch welfare office to determine eligibility to debt relief of welfare debts. We use this … administrative data, we estimate economically small and insignificant effects of debt relief on employment, earnings, welfare receipt …

ones. Our results suggest that observable household characteristics can help in the design of effective debt relief …