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Research
Latest funding
- $463,646
The Financial and Psychological Effects of Insolvency
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $123,943
The Debt Relief Project: Online and Low-Cost Access to Bankruptcy
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $124,193
The Debt Relief Project: Online and Low-Cost Access to Bankruptcy
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
The Financial and Psychological Effects of Insolvency
Principal investigators: Ben-Ishai, Stephanie
The Debt Relief Project: Online and Low-Cost Access to Bankruptcy
Principal investigators: Ben-Ishai, Stephanie
Keywords: consumer bankruptcy insolvency randomized controlled trial fintech technological innovation consumer finance low-income credit policy and regulation mental health debt collection
The Debt Relief Project: Online and Low-Cost Access to Bankruptcy
Principal investigators: Ben-Ishai, Stephanie
Keywords: consumer bankruptcy; insolvency; randomized controlled trial; fintech; technological innovation; consumer finance; low-income; credit policy and regulation; mental health; debt collection
Debt relief project: Making bankruptcy and consumer proposals more affordable
Principal investigators: Ben-Ishai, Stephanie
Keywords: Debt Relief;; Bankruptcy Filing;; Consumer Proposal;; Bankruptcy and Insolvency Trustee;; Financial Distress;; No Income/No Asset (NINA);; Financial Precariousness;; Personal Insolvency;; Affordable Financial Solutions;; Affordable Debt Relief Services.
Access to Bankruptcy: A Study of Military NINA Debtors
Principal investigators: Ben-Ishai, Stephanie
Keywords: (1) Personal Insolvency; (2) Military Financial Difficulties; (3) Financial Status Changes; (4) Over-Indebtedness; (5) Relative Financial Precariousness; (6) No Income, No Asset (NINA); (7) Debt Relief; (8) Debt Relief Orders; (9) Public-Private Debt; (10) "Poor Debtor" / "Poor Person's Bankruptcy"
GLOBAL LANDSCAPE - Millennials and indebtedness: a knowledge synthesis on millennial debt, demographic change, and financial literacy
Principal investigators: Ben-Ishai, Stephanie
Can Contract Law Help Student Loan Borrowers?: An Empirical and Doctrinal Examination of Canadian Student Loan Agreements
Principal investigators: Ben-Ishai, Stephanie
Keywords: Student loans; Debt; Post-secondary education research; Contract law; Behavioural economics; Plain language contracts
The democratization of debt: an inquiry into the provision of credit to low-income households and an assessment of their debt relief options
Principal investigators: Ben-Ishai, Stephanie
Keywords: bankruptcy; insolvency; poverty; comparative international law; overindebtedness; consumer credit; Canadian law
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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