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The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of Medical Credit Cards by Specialty. [PDF]

JAMA Health Forum
Bruch JD, Fang CC, Cliff BQ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Credit cards accepted

, 1996
Credit cards can now be used at many city ...
Palo Alto Weekly
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Swipe now, regret later? How credit cards reduce the appeal of safe choices. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Hung HH, Cheng YH, Chuang SC, Wang TM.
europepmc   +1 more source

An Empirical Analysis of Personal Bankruptcy and Delinquency [PDF]

This paper uses a unique new panel data set of credit card accounts to analyze credit card delinquency and more generally personal bankruptcy and the stability of credit risk models.
Nicholas S. Souleles, David B. Gross
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Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
wiley   +1 more source

A discrete choice approach to model credit card fraud

This paper analyses the demographic, socio-economics and banking specific determinants that influence the risk of fraud in a portfolio of credit cards. The data are from recent account archives for cards issued throughout Italy.
Paba, Antonello, Pulina, Manuela
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UK credit card use

, 2006
Brief animation demonstrating % use of credit cards in the ...
Kristian Besley
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Producing Fraud at the Welfare‐Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the production of ‘fraud’ at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition and London local authorities.
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen
wiley   +1 more source

Unsecured Credit and the Social Safety Net in U.S. States. [PDF]

Am Sociol Rev
Rhodes AP, Norris D, Houle J, Dwyer RE, Bruch SK, Berger LM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source