Curriculum Vitae

I am currently researching the individual outcomes of the democratization of credit during a time of growing wealth and income inequality. I am quite fortunate to be able to study "Generation Debt" as they come of age. I look forward to following this group of individuals and examining the role credit plays in their life experiences. Extending fascinating findings of my dissertation, I recently began looking at the parents of these young adults, many of whom take on debt in order to financially help their children during young adulthood. These parents, then, will be the first generation to retire with significant amounts of debt and will do so in a time when healthcare and financial assistance to the elderly is diminishing.

You can click on the titles below to read the abstracts for some of my papers (full drafts available on request).

• Dissertation: "Climbing or Drowning? Consumer Credit and Intergenerational Mobility" (abstract)


• "The Impact of Parental Indebtedness on Their Financial Assistance to Their Young Adult Children" (developed from a chapter of my dissertation)


• "Transmission of Debt Behaviors from Parents to Young Adult Children" (developed from a chapter of my dissertation)


• "Borrowing Trouble: The Impact of Hardship on Debt Trouble" with Rachel Dwyer (abstract)


• "Youth Debt: Considered Investment or Improvident Spending" with Rachel Dwyer and Randy Hodson (abstract)


• "Happy Workers or Indebted Servants? The Impact of Debt Holding on Job Satisfaction" with Paul Malackany (abstract)


• "Debt and Pro-Social Behavior: The Impact of Indebtedness on Organization and Political Participation" (abstract)