Michael Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
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UCC08-12: Choosing a mortgage is one of the biggest financial decisions an American consumer will make. Yet it can be a complicated one, especially in today’s…
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Michael Sherraden, Michael Barr
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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…