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 … the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on …

Nepal, we proposed an approach that combines households' income and assets to identify different livelihood strategy … poverty appears to have involved an intermediate step during which households accumulated assets and capital through farming …, petty trading and migratory work. The applied approach of combining income and assets better distinguishes the identified …

data. We jointly model the incidence and extent of financial problems, as well as the likelihood of having secured debt and … the amount of monthly secured debt repayments, allowing for dynamics and interdependence in both of the two-part outcomes … dependence in financial problems exists; (iii) interdependence exists between financial problems and secured debt, specifically …

the determinants of household debt holding and to investigate whether or not credit constraints are important for … household debt holding. We extend the existing literature in important ways. First, we present comparative evidence for four … settings for debt incidence, debt outstanding and credit constraints. We also explore the implications for debt holding from …

riskier to safe assets. …