Obesity provides a potentially informative signal about individuals' choices and preferences. Using NLSY survey data …, we estimate that debt delinquency is 20 percent higher among the obese than the non-obese after controlling for an … extensive set of financial and economic credit risk factors. The economic significance of obesity for delinquencies is …

-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …

-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …

. Yet, despite its importance, educational debt is not well understood. Among the reasons is that there exist few central … analysis of the historical and current levels of student debt and how those loans are performing. We also briefly discuss the …

Using credit report records and data collected from several household surveys, we analyze changes in household debt and … appears to reflect a considerable decline in household debt, as households paid down mortgage debt in particular. At the end … of 2009, individuals expected to continue increasing their saving and paying down of debt, which is consistent with what …

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 body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions …