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2021
w28854 Long Chen
Yadong Huang
Shumiao Ouyang
Wei Xiong

The Data Privacy Paradox and Digital Demand
w28851 Weiran Huang
Ashlyn Nelson
Stephen Ross

Foreclosure Spillovers within broad Neighborhoods
w28843 Andreas Fuster
Aurel Hizmo
Lauren Lambie-Hanson
James Vickery
Paul S. Willen

How Resilient Is Mortgage Credit Supply? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
w28806 Lars E.O. Svensson
Household Debt Overhang Did Hardly Cause a Larger Spending Fall during the Financial Crisis in the UK
w28799 Hunt Allcott
Joshua J. Kim
Dmitry Taubinsky
Jonathan Zinman

Are High-Interest Loans Predatory? Theory and Evidence from Payday Lending
w28796 Stephen L. Ross
Tingyu Zhou

Loss Aversion in Housing Sales Prices: Evidence from Focal Point Bias
w28788 Laurent E. Calvet
John Y. Campbell
Francisco Gomes
Paolo Sodini

The Cross-Section of Household Preferences
w28781 Stephen L. Ross
Yuan Wang

High Cost Lenders and the Geographic Concentration of Foreclosures
w28776 Lars E.O. Svensson
Household Debt Overhang Did Hardly Cause a Larger Spending Fall during the Financial Crisis in Australia
w28765 Jialan Wang
Kathleen Burke

The Effects of Disclosure and Enforcement on Payday Lending in Texas
w28759 Matthew E. Kahn
Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Financial Returns to Home Purchases from 2007 to 2020
w28741 M. Kate Bundorf
Jill DeMatteis
Grant Miller
Maria Polyakova
Jialu L. Streeter
Jonathan Wivagg

Risk Perceptions and Protective Behaviors: Evidence from COVID-19 Pandemic
w28724 Paul Gertler
Brett Green
Catherine Wolfram

Digital Collateral
w28721 Olivia S. Mitchell
Robert L. Clark
Annamaria Lusardi

What Explains Low Old-Age Income? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
w28675 Arpit Gupta
Vrinda Mittal
Jonas Peeters
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Flattening the Curve: Pandemic-Induced Revaluation of Urban Real Estate
w28669 Kristy Fan
Tyler J. Fisher
Andrew A. Samwick

The Insurance Value of Financial Aid
w28650 Benjamin Enke
Uri Gneezy
Brian Hall
David C. Martin
Vadim Nelidov
Theo Offerman
Jeroen van de Ven

Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes?
w28613 Daniel L. Greenwald
Matteo Leombroni
Hanno Lustig
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Financial and Total Wealth Inequality with Declining Interest Rates
w28607 David McKenzie
Aakash Mohpal
Dean Yang

Aspirations and Financial Decisions: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
w28580 William N. Goetzmann
Christophe Spaenjers
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Real and Private-Value Assets
w28574 Asaf Bernstein
Peter Koudijs

The Mortgage Piggy Bank: Building Wealth through Amortization
w28473 Thomas J. Sargent
Neng Wang
Jinqiang Yang

Stochastic Earnings Growth and Equilibrium Wealth Distributions
w28557 James M. Poterba
Adam Solomon

Discount Rates, Mortality Projections, and Money's Worth Calculations for US Individual Annuities
w28490 Vanya Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Do Required Minimum Distribution 401(k) Rules Matter, and For Whom? Insights from a Lifecycle Model
w28489 Gaetano Gaballo
Guillermo Ordoñez

The Two Faces of Information
w28479 Paolina C. Medina
Vrinda Mittal
Michaela Pagel

The Effect of Stock Ownership on Individual Spending and Loyalty
w28469 John Chalmers
Olivia S. Mitchell
Jonathan Reuter
Mingli Zhong

Auto-Enrollment Retirement Plans for the People: Choices and Outcomes in OregonSaves
w28430 Long Hong
Corina Mommaerts

Time Aggregation in Health Insurance Deductibles
w28426 Alp Simsek
The Macroeconomics of Financial Speculation
w28398 Jacob Goldin
Tatiana Homonoff
Rizwan Javaid
Brenda Schafer

Tax Filing and Take-Up: Experimental Evidence on Tax Preparation Outreach and EITC Participation
w28383 Edward N. Wolff
Household Wealth Trends in the United States, 1962 to 2019: Median Wealth Rebounds... But Not Enough
w28363 Ankit Kalda
Benjamin Loos
Alessandro Previtero
Andreas Hackethal

Smart(Phone) Investing? A within Investor-time Analysis of New Technologies and Trading Behavior.
w28361 Abigail Hurwitz
Olivia S. Mitchell
Orly Sade

Longevity Perceptions and Saving Decisions during the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Experimental Investigation
w28357 Susan F. Cherry
Erica Xuewei Jiang
Gregor Matvos
Tomasz Piskorski
Amit Seru

Government and Private Household Debt Relief during COVID-19
w28338 Supreet Kaur
Sendhil Mullainathan
Suanna Oh
Frank Schilbach

Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?
w28329 Gopi Shah Goda
Jialu Liu Streeter

Wealth Trajectories Across Key Milestones: Longitudinal Evidence from Life-Course Transitions
2020
w28312 Naomi Feldman
Ori Heffetz

A Grant to Every Citizen: Survey Evidence of the Impact of a Direct Government Payment in Israel
w28281 Misha Galashin
Martin Kanz
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Macroeconomic Expectations and Credit Card Spending
w28252 Greg Buchak
Gregor Matvos
Tomasz Piskorski
Amit Seru

Why is Intermediating Houses so Difficult? Evidence from iBuyers
w28249 Emily Breza
Martin Kanz
Leora F. Klapper

Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology: Evidence from Payroll Accounts
w28242 Marco Di Maggio
Angela T. Ma
Emily Williams

In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending and the Underbanked
w28239 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Fanny Landaud
Kjell G. Salvanes

Where Does Wealth Come From?
w28235 Marcelo L. Bergolo
Martin Leites
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Matias Strehl

What Makes a Tax Evader?
w28226 Stefano Giglio
Bryan T. Kelly
Johannes Stroebel

Climate Finance
w28201 Patrick J. Kehoe
Pierlauro Lopez
Virgiliu Midrigan
Elena Pastorino

Credit Frictions in the Great Recession
w28169 Carla Varona Cervantes
Russell Cooper

Labor Market Implications of Education MisMatch
w28165 Fernando V. Ferreira
Maisy Wong

Estimating Preferences for Neighborhood Amenities Under Imperfect Information
w28151 Olivia S. Kim
Jonathan A. Parker
Antoinette Schoar

Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic
w28145 Fernando E. Alvarez
David O. Argente

On the Effects of the Availability of Means of Payments: The Case of Uber
w28138 Victor Stango
Jonathan Zinman

We are all Behavioral, More or Less: A Taxonomy of Consumer Decision Making
w28136 Andreas Grunewald
Jonathan A. Lanning
David C. Low
Tobias Salz

Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation: Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects
w28118 Zhiguo He
Jing Huang
Jidong Zhou

Open Banking: Credit Market Competition When Borrowers Own the Data
w28086 Elizabeth Linos
Allen Prohofsky
Aparna Ramesh
Jesse Rothstein
Matt Unrath

Can Nudges Increase Take-up of the EITC?: Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments
w28063 Claire Yurong Hong
Xiaomeng Lu
Jun Pan

FinTech Adoption and Household Risk-Taking
w28039 Gene Amromin
Neil Bhutta
Benjamin J. Keys

Refinancing, Monetary Policy, and the Credit Cycle
w28028 Jonathan A. Parker
Antoinette Schoar
Yang Sun

Retail Financial Innovation and Stock Market Dynamics: The Case of Target Date Funds
w28007 Daniel J. Benjamin
Mark Alan Fontana
Miles S. Kimball

Reconsidering Risk Aversion
w28003 Anya Samek
Justin R. Sydnor

Impact of Consequence Information on Insurance Choice
w27989 Asaf Bernstein
Stephen B. Billings
Matthew Gustafson
Ryan Lewis

Voting with their Sandals: Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Change Risk
w27979 Alexander W. Butler
Bruce I. Carlin
Alan D. Crane
Boyang Liu
James P. Weston

The Value of Social Status
w27973 Theresa Kuchler
Johannes Stroebel

Social Finance
w27969 Svetlana Bender
James J. Choi
Danielle Dyson
Adriana Z. Robertson

Millionaires Speak: What Drives Their Personal Investment Decisions?
w27944 Orazio Attanasio
Agnes Kovacs
Patrick Moran

Temptation and Commitment: Understanding Hand-to-Mouth Behavior
w27937 Steve Cicala
Powering Work from Home
w27930 Benjamin J. Keys
Philip Mulder

Neglected No More: Housing Markets, Mortgage Lending, and Sea Level Rise
w27899 Paolo Acciari
Salvatore Morelli

Wealth Transfers and Net Wealth at Death: Evidence from the Italian Inheritance Tax Records 1995-2016
w27888 James Andreoni
Ray Madoff

Calculating DAF Payout and What We Learn When We Do It Correctly
w27885 Rajashri Chakrabarti
Nicole Gorton
Michael F. Lovenheim

State Investment in Higher Education: Effects on Human Capital Formation, Student Debt, and Long-term Financial Outcomes of Students
w27876 Christopher D. Carroll
Edmund Crawley
Jiri Slacalek
Matthew N. White

Modeling the Consumption Response to the CARES Act
w27869 Charles Yuji Horioka
Is the Selfish Life-Cycle Model More Applicable in Japan and, If So, Why? A Literature Survey
w27860 Victor Stango
Jonathan Zinman

Behavioral Biases are Temporally Stable
w27833 Georgij Alekseev
Safaa Amer
Manasa Gopal
Theresa Kuchler
JW Schneider
Johannes Stroebel
Nils C. Wernerfelt

The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses: Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
w27816 Brad C. Nathan
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Alejandro Zentner

My Taxes are Too Darn High: Why Do Households Protest their Taxes?
w27785 Benjamin R. Handel
Jonathan T. Kolstad
Thomas Minten
Johannes Spinnewijn

The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands
w27783 Sarah Miller
Cindy K. Soo

Does Increasing Access to Formal Credit Reduce Payday Borrowing?
w27782 J. Anthony Cookson
Erik P. Gilje
Rawley Z. Heimer

Shale Shocked: Cash Windfalls and Household Debt Repayment
w27745 Erol Akcay
David Hirshleifer

Social Finance: Cultural Evolution, Transmission Bias and Market Dynamics
w27740 Scott R. Baker
Stephanie G. Johnson
Lorenz Kueng

Financial Returns to Household Inventory Management
w27717 Jacob Bastian
Lance Lochner

The EITC and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?
w27707 Scott R. Baker
Brian Baugh
Marco C. Sammon

Measuring Customer Churn and Interconnectedness
w27677 Cormac O'Dea
David Sturrock

Survival Pessimism and the Demand for Annuities
w27676 John Y. Campbell
Nuno Clara
João F. Cocco

Structuring Mortgages for Macroeconomic Stability
w27671 Satyajit Chatterjee
Dean Corbae
Kyle P. Dempsey
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

A Quantitative Theory of the Credit Score
w27658 Sandra E. Black
Jeffrey T. Denning
Lisa J. Dettling
Sarena Goodman
Lesley J. Turner

Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being
w27648 Irem Demirci
Miguel A. Ferreira
Pedro Matos
Clemens Sialm

How Global is Your Mutual Fund? International Diversification from Multinationals
w27646 Marco Di Maggio
Amir Kermani
Rodney Ramcharan
Vincent Yao
Edison Yu

The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households
w27638 Richard Sias
Laura Starks
Harry J. Turtle

Molecular Genetics, Risk Aversion, Return Perceptions, and Stock Market Participation
w27617 Natalie Bachas
Peter Ganong
Pascal J. Noel
Joseph S. Vavra
Arlene Wong
Diana Farrell
Fiona E. Greig

Initial Impacts of the Pandemic on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Linked Income, Spending, and Savings Data
w27610 Michael J. Fishman
Jonathan A. Parker
Ludwig Straub

A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards
w27596 Jianwei Xing
Eric Zou
Zhentao Yin
Yong Wang
Zhenhua Li

"Quick Response" Economic Stimulus: The Effect of Small-Value Digital Coupons on Spending
w27594 Stefano DellaVigna
Elizabeth Linos

RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
w27585 Peter Ganong
Pascal J. Noel

Why Do Borrowers Default on Mortgages? A New Method For Causal Attribution
w27582 Dominic Webber
Richard P. Tonkin
Martin Shine

Using Tax Data to Better Capture Top Incomes in Official UK Income Inequality Statistics
w27577 Mark L. Egan
Shan Ge
Johnny Tang

Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty -- Evidence from Variable Annuities
w27575 Jacob Goldin
Tatiana Homonoff
Richard W. Patterson
William L. Skimmyhorn

How Much to Save? Decision Costs and Retirement Plan Participation
w27573 Mathias Kronlund
Veronika K. Pool
Clemens Sialm
Irina Stefanescu

Out of Sight No More? The Effect of Fee Disclosures on 401(k) Investment Allocations
w27499 Manuel Adelino
William B. McCartney
Antoinette Schoar

The Role of Government and Private Institutions in Credit Cycles in the U.S. Mortgage Market
w27459 John Beshears
James J. Choi
Christopher Clayton
Christopher Harris
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Optimal Illiquidity
w27438 David Blanchett
Michael S. Finke
Jonathan Reuter

Portfolio Delegation and 401(k) Plan Participant Responses to COVID-19
w27435 Cesare Fracassi
Alessandro Previtero
Albert W. Sheen

Barbarians at the Store? Private Equity, Products, and Consumers
w27431 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Nathaniel Hendren
Michael Stepner
The Opportunity Insights Team

The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data
w27412 Nicolas L. Bottan
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Betting on the House: Subjective Expectations and Market Choices
w27399 Francesco D’Acunto
Daniel Hoang
Michael Weber

Managing Households' Expectations with Unconventional Policies
w27367 Jules H. van Binsbergen
Duration-Based Stock Valuation: Reassessing Stock Market Performance and Volatility
w27358 Rebecca Diamond
Adam Guren
Rose Tan

The Effect of Foreclosures on Homeowners, Tenants, and Landlords
w27341 Sumit Agarwal
John Grigsby
Ali Hortaçsu
Gregor Matvos
Amit Seru
Vincent Yao

Searching for Approval
w27328 Edward N. Wolff
Taxes and the Revaluation of Household Wealth
w27318 Steffen Andersen
Julie Marx
Kasper Meisner Nielsen
Lise Vesterlund

Gender Differences in Negotiation: Evidence from Real Estate Transactions
w27299 Theresa Kuchler
Yan Li
Lin Peng
Johannes Stroebel
Dexin Zhou

Social Proximity to Capital: Implications for Investors and Firms
w27289 Michael Barnett
Greg Buchak
Constantine Yannelis

Epidemic Responses Under Uncertainty
w27272 Stefano Giglio
Matteo Maggiori
Johannes Stroebel
Stephen Utkus

Inside the Mind of a Stock Market Crash
w27261 Olivia S. Mitchell
Building Better Retirement Systems in the Wake of the Global Pandemic
w27227 Alexander M. Chinco
Samuel M. Hartzmark
Abigail B. Sussman

Necessary Evidence For A Risk Factor's Relevance
w27225 Bruce I. Carlin
Tarik Umar
Hanyi Yi

Deputization
w27216 Peter Ganong
Pascal J. Noel
Joseph S. Vavra

US Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic
w27179 Guillermo Ordoñez
Facundo Piguillem

Savings and Saving Rates: Up or Down?
w27164 David Altig
Alan J. Auerbach
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Elias Ilin
Victor Ye

Marginal Net Taxation of Americans' Labor Supply
w27141 Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Michael Weber

The Cost of the Covid-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending
w27110 John Sabelhaus
Alice Henriques Volz

Social Security Wealth, Inequality, and Lifecycle Saving
w27097 Scott R. Baker
R. A. Farrokhnia
Steffen Meyer
Michaela Pagel
Constantine Yannelis

Income, Liquidity, and the Consumption Response to the 2020 Economic Stimulus Payments
w27095 João Granja
Christos Makridis
Constantine Yannelis
Eric Zwick

Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit the Target?
w27058 Scott R. Baker
Stephen Teng Sun
Constantine Yannelis

Corporate Taxes and Retail Prices
w27051 Christopher Hansman
Harrison Hong
Áureo de Paula
Vishal Singh

A Sticky-Price View of Hoarding
w27037 Stefano DellaVigna
Jörg Heining
Johannes F. Schmieder
Simon Trenkle

Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany
w27017 Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Michael Weber

Labor Markets During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Preliminary View
w27010 Mark Garmaise
Yaron Levi
Hanno Lustig

Spending Less After (Seemingly) Bad News
w26990 Theresa Kuchler
Dominic Russel
Johannes Stroebel

The Geographic Spread of COVID-19 Correlates with the Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook
w26986 Luigi Ventura
Charles Yuji Horioka

The Wealth Decumulation Behavior of the Retired Elderly in Italy: The Importance of Bequest Motives and Precautionary Saving
w26974 Stavros Panageas
The Implications of Heterogeneity and Inequality for Asset Pricing
w26949 Scott R. Baker
R.A. Farrokhnia
Steffen Meyer
Michaela Pagel
Constantine Yannelis

How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
w26920 Jaanika Meriküll
Merike Kukk
Tairi Rõõm

What Explains the Gender Gap in Wealth? Evidence from Administrative Data
w26914 Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Kelly Shue

The Gender Gap in Housing Returns
w26911 Hongqi Liu
Cameron Peng
Wei A. Xiong
Wei Xiong

Taming the Bias Zoo
w26903 Erica Jiang
Gregor Matvos
Tomasz Piskorski
Amit Seru

Banking without Deposits: Evidence from Shadow Bank Call Reports
w26879 John Bailey Jones
Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
Rory McGee
Rachel Rodgers

Medical Spending, Bequests, and Asset Dynamics Around the Time of Death
w26837 Francesco D’Acunto
Ulrike Malmendier
Michael Weber

Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap
w26818 Christine Laudenbach
Ulrike Malmendier
Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi

The Long-lasting Effects of Living under Communism on Attitudes towards Financial Markets
w26817 Francesco D’Acunto
Thomas Rauter
Christoph K. Scheuch
Michael Weber

Perceived Precautionary Savings Motives: Evidence from FinTech
w26808 Benjamin J. Keys
Neale Mahoney
Hanbin Yang

What Determines Consumer Financial Distress? Place- and Person-Based Factors
w26740 Matteo Leombroni
Monika Piazzesi
Martin Schneider
Ciaran Rogers

Inflation and the Price of Real Assets
w26739 Adair Morse
Karen Pence

Technological Innovation and Discrimination in Household Finance
w26700 Mattia Landoni
Stephen P. Zeldes

Should the Government be Paying Investment Fees on $3 Trillion of Tax-Deferred Retirement Assets?
w26691 George Wehby
Robert Kaestner
Wei Lyu
Dhaval M. Dave

Effects of the Minimum Wage on Child Health
w26684 Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen Utkus

Target Date Funds and Portfolio Choice in 401(k) Plans
w26668 Benjamin Loos
Steffen Meyer
Michaela Pagel

The Consumption Effects of the Disposition to Sell Winners and Hold Losers
w26645 Bronson Argyle
Taylor D. Nadauld
Christopher Palmer

Real Effects of Search Frictions in Consumer Credit Markets
w26635 Corina Boar
Dynastic Precautionary Savings
w26621 Charles Yuji Horioka
Emin Gahramanov
Aziz Hayat
Xueli Tang

The Impact of Bequest Motives on Retirement Behavior in Japan: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
w26616 Pinar Yildirim
Andrei Simonov
Maria Petrova
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Are Political and Charitable Giving Substitutes? Evidence from the United States

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