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Mortgage Supply and the US Housing Boom: The Role of the Community Reinvestment Act
(2016-10-30)
This paper studies the role of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) in the US housing boom-bust cycle. I find that the enhancement in CRA enforcement in 1998 increased the growth rate of mortgage lending by CRA-regulated ...
Optimal Social Security Claiming Behavior under Lump Sum Incentives: Theory and Evidence
(2017-01-31)
People who delay claiming Social Security receive higher lifelong benefits upon retirement. We survey individuals on their willingness to delay claiming later, if they could receive a lump sum in lieu of a higher annuity ...
Older People’s Willingness to Delay Social Security Claiming
(2016-09-01)
We designed and fielded an experimental module in the 2014 HRS which seeks to measure older persons’ willingness to voluntarily defer claiming of Social Security benefits. In addition we evaluate the stated willingness of ...
How Persistent Low Expected Returns Alter Optimal Life Cycle Saving, Investment, and Retirement Behavior
(2017-06-23)
This Chapter explores how an environment of persistent low returns influences saving, investing, and retirement behaviors, as compared to what in the past had been thought of as more “normal” financial conditions. Our ...
Optimal Taxes on Capital in the OLG Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Income Risk
(2018-02-09)
We characterize the optimal linear tax on capital in an Overlapping Generations model with two period lived households facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general ...
Pro-rich Inflation in Europe: Implications for the Measurement of Inequality
(2018-05-17)
This paper studies the distributional consequences of a systematic variation in expenditure shares and prices. Using European Union Household Budget Surveys and Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices data, we construct ...
Endogenous Retirement Behavior of Heterogeneous Households Under Pension Reforms
(2018-04-25)
We propose a unified framework to measure the effects of different reforms of the pension system on retirement ages and macroeconomic indicators in the face of demographic change. A rich overlapping generations (OLG) model ...
Explaining Intra-Monthly Consumption Patterns: The Timing of Income or the Timing of Consumption Commitments?
(2018-11-01)
A number of recent studies have concluded that consumer spending patterns over the month are closely linked to the timing of income receipt. This correlation is interpreted as evidence of hyperbolic discounting. I re-examine ...
Job Loss Expectations, Durable Consumption and Household Finances: Evidence from Linked Survey Data
(2019-03-01)
Job security is important for durable consumption and household savings. Using surveys, workers express a probability that they will lose their job in the next 12 months. In order to assess the empirical content of these ...
Rigid Wages and Contracts: Time- versus State-Dependent Wages in the Netherlands
(2019-09-01)
We study nominal wage rigidity in the Netherlands using administrative data, which has three key features: (1) high-frequency (monthly), (2) high-quality (administrative records), and (3) high coverage (the universe of ...