Gender Differences in Attitudes Toward Debt and Financial Position: The Impact of the Great Recession
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Keywords
Gender; attitudes towards debt; household debt; Great Recession; feminist methods;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- B54 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Feminist Economics
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HME-2014-12-24 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
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