Underwater : essays on American indebtedness
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation asks and answers three questions about the nature of mortgage debt and debtors in the contemporary United States. 1) Do individuals from different class backgrounds manage mortgage debt differently? 2) Do existing theories of mortgage debt, mostly in economics and finance, accord with how individuals actually manage debt? 3) And, finally, does consumer solvency or price better predict mortgage default? My findings have implications for theories of consumer credit in economic sociology and inequality as well as relevance to contemporary debates about how to reform housing finance policy in the United States.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Owens, Lindsay A |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Cook, Karen |
| Thesis advisor | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Advisor | Cook, Karen |
| Advisor | Granovetter, Mark S |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Lindsay A. Owens. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Lindsay Alexandra Owens
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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