de Bruijn, Ernst-Jan; Vethaak, Heike; Koning, Pierre; … - 2023
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 …