Essays in Household and Behavioral Finance

This thesis contains three chapters on household finance and behavioral finance. The first chapter studies how to balance insurance and incentives in student loans with income-contingent repayment, which insure borrowers against income risk but also can reduce their incentives to earn more. Using a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: de Silva, Tim
Other Authors: Parker, Jonathan A.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155915