Essays on Debt Aversion- [electronic resource]
Essays on Debt Aversion- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214101306
- ISBN
- 9798379876647
- DDC
- 370
- 저자명
- Shi, Mike.
- 서명/저자
- Essays on Debt Aversion - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : Stanford University., 2021
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2021
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(113 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Pistaferri, Luigi.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2021.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약We propose that holding debt causes worse financial decisions using two novel experimental designs where we randomly assign debt. Our designs isolate the consequences of holding debt while controlling for potential confounding factors such as initial wealth levels, selection, risk, and time preferences. Our first set of findings show that debt causes behavioral biases detrimental to subjects' financial payoffs. However, subjects' strategies are not random but instead debt-biased, consistent with a model of debt aversion. Furthermore, we show in additional treatments how these debt-biased behaviors can also deter subjects from borrowing and miss arbitrage opportunities. We then expand on these findings by running an alternate, income-focused debt experiment. We decouple the relationship between income generation and debt repayment, and we also reduce and even remove the role of compounding debt. These adjustments give mixed evidence of debt aversion. When debt is more salient we find qualitatively similar causal effects of debt on financial decision-making. These effects are not present in our less salient debt treatment, but instead we find suggestive evidence of a desire to reduce debt balances at the expense of actual earnings. Overall, we find experimental evidence of debt aversion in line with empirical findings in the literature. Our findings go above and beyond traditional concepts in behavioral economics, and we can also show the opportunity cost of debt aversion at the extensive margin in addition to the intensive margin.
- 일반주제명
- Enrollments.
- 일반주제명
- Student loans.
- 일반주제명
- Decision making.
- 일반주제명
- Tuition.
- 일반주제명
- Households.
- 일반주제명
- Fees & charges.
- 일반주제명
- Behavioral psychology.
- 일반주제명
- Education finance.
- 일반주제명
- Finance.
- 일반주제명
- Psychology.
- 기타저자
- Stanford University.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-01B.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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