Martha L Olney
Biographic Data
| ID | 1149409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha L Olney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha L |
| FAMILY NAME | Olney |
| SIGNATURE | OLNEY M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When Your Word Is Not Enough: Race, Collateral, and Household Credit
Black families included in the 1918/19 BLS Consumer Purchases Survey used installment credit more frequently and merchant credit less frequently than White families. Economic and demographic characteristics explain the racial difference for installment but not for merchant credit. I argue greater demand for installment credit by Black families was satisfied because repossession of collateral upon buyer default overcame merchants' personal prejudi…
Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920s
Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920s
Demand for consumer durable goods in 20th century America
Credit as a Production-Smoothing Device: The Case of Automobiles, 1913-1938
Credit financing of automobile sales and dealer inventories was provided primarily by hundreds of sales finance companies in the interwar United States. The few finance companies tied to auto manufacturers wrote 90 percent of credit business. Manufacturers initially established finance companies not to bolster retail sales but to finance dealers' wholesale inventory so manufacturers could lower average costs by smoothing seasonal production patte…
Advertising, Consumer Credit, and the “Consumer Durables Revolution” of the 1920s
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Fertility and the Standard of Living in Early Modern England: In Consideration of Wrigley and Schofield
Comparing the dating of turning points of fertility with real wage trends for the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, Wrigley and Schofield reported that an average of 50 years elapsed between changes in real wages and in fertility. Using a formal statistical procedure, it is shown that over these three centuries the average lag length was closer to 16 years. With eighteenth-century regional wage data the estimates of average lag length range…
When Your Word Is Not Enough: Race, Collateral, and Household Credit
Black families included in the 1918/19 BLS Consumer Purchases Survey used installment credit more frequently and merchant credit less frequently than White families. Economic and demographic characteristics explain the racial difference for installment but not for merchant credit. I argue greater demand for installment credit by Black families was satisfied because repossession of collateral upon buyer default overcame merchants' personal prejudi…
Demand for consumer durable goods in 20th century America
Credit as a Production-Smoothing Device: The Case of Automobiles, 1913-1938
Credit financing of automobile sales and dealer inventories was provided primarily by hundreds of sales finance companies in the interwar United States. The few finance companies tied to auto manufacturers wrote 90 percent of credit business. Manufacturers initially established finance companies not to bolster retail sales but to finance dealers' wholesale inventory so manufacturers could lower average costs by smoothing seasonal production patte…
Advertising, Consumer Credit, and the “Consumer Durables Revolution” of the 1920s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Fertility and the Standard of Living in Early Modern England: In Consideration of Wrigley and Schofield
Comparing the dating of turning points of fertility with real wage trends for the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, Wrigley and Schofield reported that an average of 50 years elapsed between changes in real wages and in fertility. Using a formal statistical procedure, it is shown that over these three centuries the average lag length was closer to 16 years. With eighteenth-century regional wage data the estimates of average lag length range…
Fertility and the Standard of Living in Early Modern England: In Consideration of Wrigley and Schofield
Comparing the dating of turning points of fertility with real wage trends for the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, Wrigley and Schofield reported that an average of 50 years elapsed between changes in real wages and in fertility. Using a formal statistical procedure, it is shown that over these three centuries the average lag length was closer to 16 years. With eighteenth-century regional wage data the estimates of average lag length range…
Advertising, Consumer Credit, and the “Consumer Durables Revolution” of the 1920s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Credit as a Production-Smoothing Device: The Case of Automobiles, 1913-1938
Credit financing of automobile sales and dealer inventories was provided primarily by hundreds of sales finance companies in the interwar United States. The few finance companies tied to auto manufacturers wrote 90 percent of credit business. Manufacturers initially established finance companies not to bolster retail sales but to finance dealers' wholesale inventory so manufacturers could lower average costs by smoothing seasonal production patte…
Demand for consumer durable goods in 20th century America
Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920s
Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920s
When Your Word Is Not Enough: Race, Collateral, and Household Credit
Black families included in the 1918/19 BLS Consumer Purchases Survey used installment credit more frequently and merchant credit less frequently than White families. Economic and demographic characteristics explain the racial difference for installment but not for merchant credit. I argue greater demand for installment credit by Black families was satisfied because repossession of collateral upon buyer default overcame merchants' personal prejudi…
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