1st Edition

Economic Well-being and Household Debt

208 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The growing indebtedness of households reported over the last 30 years and in most developed countries has serious economic and social implications. This book provides insight into the concepts, measures, and determinants of household indebtedness, over-indebtedness, and well-being by integrating theoretical perspectives, adopting recent analytical methods, and using a sample of Polish... Read more
Introduction 1. Household indebtedness: theories and facts 2. Household indebtedness: empirical analysis 3. The nature of household over-indebtedness: theory and measurement 4. Characteristics of over-indebted households: empirical analysis 5. Household over-indebtedness and well-being 6. The economic well-being of over-indebted households: own research Conclusion

Biography

Agnieszka Wałęga is Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Cracow University of Economics.

Grzegorz Wałęga is Assistant Professor in the Department of Microeconomics at the Cracow University of Economics.

Ryszard Kowalski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Microeconomics at the Cracow University of Economics.