Kristin Perkins, Michael Lear, Elyzabeth Gaumer
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May 27, 2016
Recent research suggests that foreclosures have negative effects on homeowners and neighborhoods. We examine the association between concentrated foreclosure activity and the…
RR07-2: Where the poor live and why has an enormous impact on access to jobs, decent quality schools, and other local attributes that affect a family’s ability to rise…
Richard Wiener, Karen Gross, Susan Block-Lieb, Corinne Baron-Donovan
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February 2, 2004
BABC 04-2: This paper used a psycho legal methodology, which combined empirical research with legal scholarship to study debtors in bankruptcy comparing them to a sample…
Using data from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), this paper estimates homeownership rates that would prevail in the United States if borrowing constraints were…