Working Papers

The Impact of Housing Markets on Consumer Debt: Credit Report Evidence from 1999 to 2012
With Sarah Stein, and Basit Zafar
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports 617, May 2013

Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System
With Elizabeth Setren and Giorgio Topa
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, 568, August 2012

Do We Know What We Owe? A Comparison of Borrower- and Lender-Reported Consumer Debt
With Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, and Wilbert van der Klaauw
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, 523, October 2011

Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility and Child Investment  
With Christopher Flinn
revise and resubmit, International Economic Review

The Financial Crisis at the Kitchen Table: Trends in Household Debt and Credit
With Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, and Wilbert van der Klaauw
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, 480, December 2010, revise and resbumit at Current Issues in Economics and Finance

A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education
With John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri
NBER Working Paper 14879, April 2009

Real-Time Search in the Laboratory and the Market
With Christopher J. Flinn and Andrew Schotter
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, 410, December 2009

Investment in Child Quality Over Marital States
With Christopher J. Flinn
Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper, 1320-07, 2007

End-of-Life Transfers and the Decision to Care for a Parent
February 2007

Tied Transfers
With Maurizio Mazzocco, John Karl Scholz, and Ananth Seshadri
Russell Sage Foundation Working Paper Series, May 2004

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