Modelando a propensão ao endividamento: os fatores comportamentais e socioeconômicos são determinantes?

Abstract

This study analyzes the influence of behavioral factors and socioeconomic and demographic variables on the tendency to debt. For this purpose an investigation was conducted from 2,391 surveys. Based on the answers factor analysis was used to validate the factors of materialism and compulsive buying. With the estimation of a multinomial logit model the influence of these factors and socioeconomic and demographic in the propensity to debt variables was analyzed. The main results suggest that the poorer materialistic and compulsive shopping behavior of the individual, the greater the propensity to debt. And those with dependents, do not have an occupation, have lower levels of age, education and family income are those with greater propensity to debt. Among the significant variables a Compulsive shopping factor is highlighted, showing that the greater the control of the compulsive shopping behavior of the individual, the lower their propensity to debt