Measuring Household Distress and Potential Policy Impacts

Jeffrey Cohen, Cletus Coughlin, William Emmons, Jacob Haas and Lowell Ricketts

Economic Synopses, 2021, issue 3, 3 pages

Abstract: Government policies such as income support and debt relief may help explain low levels of household financial distress, but outcomes are uncertain once assistance ends.

Keywords: household distress; policy; income support; debt relief (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.20955/es.2021.3

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