Asset-Backed Securities Markets
Securitization Markets and Central Banking: An Evaluation of the Term Asset-Backed Securities Facility (with Sean D. Campbell, Daniel M. Covitz, and William R. Nelson), Journal of Monetary Economics (2011)
In response to the near collapse of US securitization markets in 2008, the Federal Reserve...
Foreclosure and Mortgages
Subprime Mortgages: Where, What, and to Whom? (with Christopher Mayer), Housing Markets and the Economy: Risk, Regulation, and Policy (2009)
We explore the types of data used to characterize risky subprime lending and consider the...
The Rise in Mortgage Defaults (with Christopher Mayer and Shane M. Sherlund), Journal of Economic Perspectives (2009)
Do Borrowers Know their Mortgage Terms? (with Brian K. Bucks), Journal of Urban Economics (2008)
We assess whether borrowers know their mortgage terms by comparing the distributions of these variables...
Foreclosing on Opportunity: State Laws and Mortgage Credit, Review of Economics and Statistics (2006)
Foreclosure laws govern the rights of borrowers and lenders when borrowers default on mortgages. In...
401(k)s and Household Wealth
Comment on "Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2011)
Comment on "The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2009)
Are Successive Generations Getting Wealthier, and If So, Why? Evidence from the 1990s (with William G. Gale), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2006)
The Role of Wealth Transformations: An Application to Estimating the Effect of Tax Incentives on Saving, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2006)
Researchers may want to estimate the percentage change of a variable, such as household wealth...
Nature or Nurture: Why do 401(k) Participants Save Differently than Other Workers?, National Tax Journal (2002)
Participants in 401(k) plans are more likely than other workers to list “retirement” as their...
Household Debt Service
Recent Changes to a Measure of U.S. Household Debt Service (with Karen E. Dynan and Kathleen W. Johnson), Federal Reserve Bulletin (2003)
Teen pregnancy
Do youth non-marital childbearing choices reflect income and relationship expectations? (with Barbara Wolfe, Robert Haveman, and Jonathan Schwabish), Journal of Population Economics (2007)
We hypothesize that teen nonmarital birth events are influenced by adolescent girls' perceptions of the...