This study analyzes the effect of individual finances (specifically creditworthiness and severely delinquent debt) on … is utilized in an instrumental variables design. The possibility of the reverse causality of bad health causing debt and … 2005 residence. Worsening creditworthiness and increases in severely delinquent debt are found to lead to increases in …

unsustainable levels of debt. Using survey data from South Africa, we confirm that poor people are indeed overly optimistic, and … also that optimism is positively and significantly related to debt accumulation. …

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 …

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

employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to rule out problems of reverse causality. We apply different measures of … precarious debt situation). We find all debt measures to be strongly correlated with health satisfaction, mental health, and … obesity. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversed causality we find evidence that household debt also causally …