Predicting financial trouble using call data-On social capital, phone logs, and financial trouble.

ABSTRACT: An ability to understand and predict financial wellbeing for individuals is of interest to economists, policy designers, financial institutions, and the individuals themselves. According to the Nilson reports, there were more than 3 billion credit cards in use in 2013, accounting for purchases exceeding US$ 2.2 trillion, and according to the Federal Reserve report, 39% of American households were carrying credit card debt from month to month. Prior literature has connected individual financial wellbeing with social capital. However, as yet, there is limited empirical evidence connecting social interaction behavior with financial outcomes. This work reports results from one of the largest known studies connecting financial outcomes and phone-based social behavior (180,000 individuals; 2 yea

SUBMITTER: Agarwal RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5825009 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature