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Household Finance Working Group


2012
w18105 Neale Mahoney
Bankruptcy as Implicit Health Insurance

w18077 Thomas Philippon
Has the U.S. Finance Industry Become Less Efficient? On the Theory and Measurement of Financial Intermediation

w18069 Patrick Bayer
Marcus D. Casey
Fernando Ferreira
Robert McMillan

Price Discrimination in the Housing Market

w18065 Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dan Silverman
Dean Yang

Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices

w18050 Martijn Cremers
Antti Petajisto
Eric Zitzewitz

Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation

w18000 Shang-Jin Wei
Xiaobo Zhang
Yin Liu

Status Competition and Housing Prices

w17929 Sendhil Mullainathan
Markus Noeth
Antoinette Schoar

The Market for Financial Advice: An Audit Study

w17927 Gopi Shah Goda
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Aaron Sojourner

What Will My Account Really Be Worth? An Experiment on Exponential Growth Bias and Retirement Saving

w17911 Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen Utkus

Target-Date Funds in 401(k) Retirement Plans

w17899 Hanming Fang
Edward Kung

Why Do Life Insurance Policyholders Lapse? The Roles of Income, Health and Bequest Motive Shocks

w17895 Bruce Ian Carlin
Florian Ederer

Search Fatigue

w17886 Pierluigi Balduzzi
Jonathan Reuter

Heterogeneity in Target-Date Funds and the Pension Protection Act of 2006

w17882 Arthur Korteweg
Morten Sorensen

Estimating Loan-to-Value and Foreclosure Behavior

w17857 Robin McKnight
Jonathan Reuter
Eric Zitzewitz

Insurance as Delegated Purchasing: Theory and Evidence from Health Care

w17843 James J. Choi
Emily Haisley
Jennifer Kurkoski
Cade Massey

Small Cues Change Savings Choices

w17832 Manuel Adelino
Antoinette Schoar
Felipe Severino

Credit Supply and House Prices: Evidence from Mortgage Market Segmentation

w17807 Tal Gross
Matthew J. Notowidigdo
Jialan Wang

Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates

w17783 Xavier Gabaix
Boundedly Rational Dynamic Programming: Some Preliminary Results

w17743 Abhijit Banerjee
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Esther Duflo
Matthew O. Jackson

The Diffusion of Microfinance

w17723 Tim Landvoigt
Monika Piazzesi
Martin Schneider

The Housing Market(s) of San Diego


2011
w17702 Esther Duflo
Women’s Empowerment and Economic Development

w17688 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
David Benson

Consumption and the Great Recession

w17581 Charles Yuji Horioka
Akiko Terada-Hagiwara

The Determinants and Long-term Projections of Saving Rates in Developing Asia

w17536 James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

The Composition and Draw-down of Wealth in Retirement

w17522 Kristian Rydqvist
Joshua Spizman
Ilya A. Strebulaev

Government Policy and Ownership of Financial Assets

w17516 John Y. Campbell
João F. Cocco

A Model of Mortgage Default

w17506 Alp Simsek
Speculation and Risk Sharing with New Financial Assets

w17491 Diane Del Guercio
Jonathan Reuter

Mutual Fund Performance and the Incentive to Invest in Active Management

w17485 Lisa J. Dettling
Melissa Schettini Kearney

House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

w17475 Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

List Randomization for Sensitive Behavior: An Application for Measuring Use of Loan Proceeds

w17449 Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dean Yang

Credit Market Consequences of Improved Personal Identification: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

w17410 Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan
Eldar Shafir
Lee Vermeulen
Marian Wrobel

Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

w17345 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian
Katherine L. Milkman

The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

w17338 Greg Kaplan
Giovanni L. Violante

A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments

w17325 Ralph Koijen
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Motohiro Yogo

Health and Mortality Delta: Assessing the Welfare Cost of Household Insurance Choice

w17315 Gene Amromin
Jennifer Huang
Clemens Sialm
Edward Zhong

Complex Mortgages

w17255 Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson

Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments

w17199 Ngoc-Khanh Tran
Richard J. Zeckhauser

The Behavior of Savings and Asset Prices When Preferences and Beliefs are Heterogeneous

w17134 Jingjing Chai
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

Lifecycle Impacts of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Household Optimal Consumption, Portfolio Choice, and Labor Supply

w17122 Yael V. Hochberg
Joshua D. Rauh

Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments

w17118 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans

w17065 Christopher J. Mayer
Edward Morrison
Tomasz Piskorski
Arpit Gupta

Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w17041 Erik Hurst
Benjamin Wild Pugsley

What Do Small Businesses Do?

w17028 Victor Stango
Jonathan Zinman

Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Bank Overdraft Fees

w17025 Jialun Li
Kent Smetters

Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security

w17018 Jeffrey R. Brown
Arie Kapteyn
Olivia S. Mitchell

Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior

w16999 Rajashri Chakrabarti
Donghoon Lee
Wilbert van der Klaauw
Basit Zafar

Household Debt and Saving During the 2007 Recession

w16965 Thomas Philippon
Virgiliu Midrigan

Household Leverage and the Recession

w16933 Florencia Devoto
Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
William Pariente
Vincent Pons

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

w16911 Xavier Gabaix
A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality

w16887 Erin Todd Bronchetti
Thomas S. Dee
David B. Huffman
Ellen Magenheim

When a Nudge Isn’t Enough: Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers

w16868 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Can Psychological Aggregation Manipulations Affect Portfolio Risk-Taking? Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment

w16840 Edward N. Wolff
Maury Gittleman

Inheritances and the Distribution of Wealth or Whatever Happened to the Great Inheritance Boom? Results from the SCF and PSID

w16791 Syngjoo Choi
Shachar Kariv
Wieland Müller
Dan Silverman

Who Is (More) Rational?

w16740 Justine S. Hastings
Olivia S. Mitchell

How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors

w16728 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans

w16701 Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
Negative Equity Does Not Reduce Homeowners' Mobility

w16696 Pierre-André Chiappori
Krislert Samphantharak
Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
Robert M. Townsend

Heterogeneity and Risk Sharing in Village Economies

w16684 Jonathan A. Parker
Nicholas S. Souleles
David S. Johnson
Robert McClelland

Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008


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