VITA Summary of Research (in process of updating) 1. Publications: Journal
Articles
University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business
(Updated October 2007)
Parental Education and Time Spent With Children (with Jon Guryan and Melissa Kearney) Journal of Economic Perspectives, forthcoming, PDF
Lifecycle Prices and Production (with Mark Aguair) American Economic Review, December 2007 PDF
Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades (with Mark Aguiar) Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2007 PDF
Social Security and Unsecured Debt (with Paul Willen) (Version: November 2006) Journal of Public Finance, August 2007 PDF
Do Welfare Asset Limits Affect Household Saving? Evidence from Welfare Reform (with Jim Ziliak). Journal of Human Resources, Winter 2006, 41(1), 46-71. PDF
Consumption vs. Expenditure (with Mark Aguiar). Journal of Political Economy, October 2005, 113(5), 919-948. PDF
Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth and Entrepreneurship (with Anna Lusardi). Journal of Political Economy, April 2004, 112(2), 319-347. PDF
The Correlation of Wealth Across Generations (with Kerwin Charles). Journal of Political Economy, December 2003, 111(6), 1155-1182. PDF
Home is Where the Equity Is: Liquidity Constraints, Refinancing and Consumption (with Frank Stafford). Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, December 2004, 36(6) 985 - 1014. PDF
The Consumer Bankruptcy Decision (with Scott Fay and Michelle White). American Economic Review, June 2002, 92(3), 706-718. PDF (data for the bankruptcy paper)
The Transition to Home Ownership and the Black/White Wealth Gap (with Kerwin Charles). Review of Economics and Statistics , May 2002, 84(2), 281-297. PDF
Wealth Dynamics of American Families: 1984 - 1994 (with Ming Ching Luoh and Frank Stafford): Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1: 1998. PDF
An Empirical Estimation of SS-Rules (with Christopher Foote and John Leahy). American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2000, 90(2), 116-119.
2.
Publications: Book Entries and
Conference Volumes
Leisure Inequality (with Mark Aguiar) Manuscript prepared for American Enterprise Institute series on measuring inequality, forthcoming. PDF
Understanding Consumption in Retirement: Recent Developments Pension Research Counsil Book, forthcoming (John Americks and Olivia Mitchell, eds.) PDF
Slightly updated NBER version of the paper entitled "The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle" PDF
The
Permanent Income Hypothesis, New
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition (With Mark Aguiar) (Version:
April 2006) PDF
3. Working Papers
Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure (with Mark Aguiar) (Version: March 2008) PDF
Robustness Appendix for "Decontructing Lifecycle Expenditure" PDF
Data page for "Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure" can be found here
Conspicuous Consumption and Race (with Kerwin Charles and Nick Roussanov) (Version: August 2007) PDF <<revise and resubmit at the Quarterly Journal of Economics>>
Data Page For Conspicuous Consumption and Race
Robustness Appendix for Conspicuous Consumption and Race
Precautionary Savings and the Importantce of Business Owners (short version of above version) (Version: February 2008) PDF <<revise and resubmite at the Review of Economics and Statistics>>
Online Robustness Appendix for Precautionary Savings and the Importance of Business Owners (Version: February 2008) PDF
Precautionary
Savings and the Importance of Business Owners (with Anna Lusardi,
Arthur Kennickel, and Francisco Torralba) (Longer Version: October 2005)
PDF (NBER Working Paper
#11731)
Grasshoppers, Ants and Pre-Retirement
Wealth: A Test of Permanent Income Consumers. (Version: March 2006) PDF (NBER Working Paper #10098)
<<revise and resubmit at the Journal of Human Resources>>
The Nature and Consequences of Marital Sorting by Parental Wealth (with Kerwin Charles and Liqian Ren) (Version: July 2006) PDF
Examining Racial Differences in Vehicle Financing Rates (with Kerwin Charles and Mel Stephens) (Version: April 2006) PDF <<revise and resubmit at the Journal of Law and Economics>>
Household Consumption and Household
Type: What Can We Learn From Mortage Refinancing? PDF
4.
Work
in
Progress (This work is in prelminary stages. If PDF exists, do
not cite.)
The Quantity of Life (with Mark Aguiar)
Endogenous Home Production (with Mark Aguiar)
The Effects of Recent Bankruptcy Reform (with Austan Goolsbee)
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