W08-4: By looking beyond the financial characteristics of borrowers, this research brings to light the social factors that influence a borrower’s choice of a lender and…
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…
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…