• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Trying Times : Expected Financial Distress in the Household Context
  • Contributor: Schmidt, Carolin [Author]
  • Published: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2023]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (13 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4419730
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  • Keywords: Financial distress ; cost-of-living crisis ; household behaviour ; energy prices
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  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 15, 2023 erstellt
  • Description: Persistent financial concerns often lead to poor mental health, which is why we need to better understand which factors contribute to it. I elicit determinants of household heads' and non-household heads' expected financial distress after the sudden energy-price hike in the UK in 2021 and find that it is primarily the former who feel the financial burden of the cost-of-living crisis. A decomposition of the gap in expected financial distress highlights that not only do household heads and non-household heads experience strain differently, but the main drivers of financial distress are time-dependent. These are important insights for researchers and policy-makers
  • Access State: Open Access