We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period … is both lower in levels and rises by a smaller amount. We also find that couples' earnings instability is lower in levels … compared to male earnings instability and actually declines in the SIPP-SSA data. While wives' earnings played an important …

We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period … is both lower in levels and rises by a smaller amount. We also find that couples' earnings instability is lower in levels … compared to male earnings instability and actually declines in the SIPP-SSA data. While wives' earnings played an important …

boost TFP growth while external debt is actually negatively correlated with TFP growth. The negative relationship between … external debt liabilities and TFP growth is attenuated in economies with higher levels of financial development and better …

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the …

types of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets. The analysis suggests … amounts of both debt (unsecured and secured) and assets (property and non-housing), even after conditioning on the probability …

households affected by such programs. We analyze the impact of the Texas Enterprise Zone Program on household debt and …

information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …

contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women's debt/credit in quantitative … sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … household debt. On a theoretical level, these results highlight the gendered earmarking of debt and credit: male and female …

We use information from the last wave of the Spanish Survey of Households Finance to study the influence of debt on the … smaller MPC than non-indebted households. This negative association increases along with the amount of debt. We also find a …