Innovative Data in Household Finance: Opportunities and Challenges

Pascal J. Noel, Jialan Wang, and Stephen P. Zeldes, Organizers

December 8, 2023

Format: 15 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for Q&A.

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, December 8
8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
8:45 am
Welcome and Introductions
9:00 am
Agustin Hurtado, University of Maryland
Jung Sakong, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

The Effect of Minority Bank Ownership on Minority Credit
9:25 am
Robert Collinson, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Anthony A. DeFusco, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER
Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
David C. Phillips, University of Notre Dame
Vincent Reina, University of Pennsylvania
Patrick S. Turner, University of Notre Dame
Winnie van Dijk, Yale University and NBER

The Effects of Emergency Rental Assistance During the Pandemic: Evidence from Lotteries in Four Cities
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am
Panel on Data Innovation
Moderator: Pascal Noel, University of Chicago and NBER
Kelly Cochran, FinRegLab
Ara Kharazian, Square
Milan van den Heuvel, BNP Paribas Fortis
Bridget Bearden, EBRI
10:50 am
Break
11:05 am
Jose Murillo, Harvard University
Boris Vallee, Harvard University
Dolly Yu, Yale University

Fintech to the (Worker) Rescue: Earned Wage Access, Financial Health and Employee Retention
11:30 am
Olivia S. Kim, Harvard University

Credit and the Family: The Economic Consequences of Closing the Credit Gap of U.S. Couples
11:55 am
Lunch - Longfellow C Room
12:50 pm
Parinitha R. Sastry, Columbia University
Ishita Sen, Harvard University
Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets
1:15 pm
Nancy Wallace, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Stanton, University of California at Berkeley
Carles Vergara-Alert, IESE Business School
Paulo Issler, University of California at Berkeley

Housing and Mortgage Markets with Climate Risk: Evidence from California Wildfires
1:40 pm
Break
1:55 pm
Panel on Climate Change and Household Finance
Moderator: Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jeremy Porter, First Street Foundation
Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER
Emily Williams, Harvard University
2:45 pm
Break
2:55 pm
Eduardo Nakasone, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Máximo Torero, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER

Neuroeconomics for Development: Financial Inclusion and Visual Attention
3:20 pm
Umang Khetan, University of Iowa
Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University and NBER
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Yunrong Zhou, Purdue University

Unemployment Insurance Fraud in the Debit Card Market
3:45 pm
Break
3:55 pm
Taha Choukhmane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

How Do Consumers Finance Increased Retirement Savings?
3:57 pm
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4:20 pm
Raymond Kluender, Harvard University
Neale Mahoney, Stanford University and NBER
Francis Wong, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Wesley Yin, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

A Bittersweet Jubilee: Effects of Randomized Medical Debt Relief
4:45 pm
Closing Remarks
4:50 pm
Adjourn