The effect of self-control on household debtThe Spanish case

  1. Sara Fernández-López 1
  2. Sandra Castro-González 1
  3. David Rodeiro-Pazos 1
  4. Lucía Rey-Ares 2
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

  2. 2 Universidade da Couña
Libro:
XXX Jornadas Luso-Espanholas de Gestão Científica: cooperação transfronteiriça. Desenvolvimento e coesão territorial. Livro de resumos
  1. PaulaOdete Fernandes

Editorial: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança

ISBN: 978-972-745-273-6

Ano de publicación: 2020

Páxinas: 209

Congreso: Jornadas Hispanolusas de Gestión Científica (30. 2020. Bragança)

Tipo: Achega congreso

Obxectivos de Desenvolvemento Sustentable

Resumo

Household debt holding levels are increasing and it has outstanding importance for family finances and global economy. This paper analysed the effect of a behavioural trait, self-control, over the household indebtedness. Particularly, we examined how self-control, measure through a more compressive financial approach, influences on different types of household debts. To this end, we construct a self-control measure which combine three financial items and consider different types of household debts. The empirical analysis is based on data from the International Survey of Adult Financial Literacy and, the results, obtained through probit regression models, show that self-control negatively influences individuals’ decisions of holding debts. However, self-control differs across different types of debt and its effect depends on the supply side of credit.