Junior Household Finance Seminar

First and third Fridays of the month 1:00-2:00 P.M. EST.

A juniors-only forum to present early-stage work in household finance.

• Sign up for Fall 2024 presentations

• Past presentation schedules

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Racism and Sexism in Finance

I prepared a slide deck on (1) an abridged history of racism and sexism in finance, (2) legislation designed to correct it, (3) the impact of the legislation based on academic research, and (4) new research on other interventions designed to combat racism and sexism in finance. It is designed as a lecture from slides 1-67 and then a “choose your own adventure” afterwards.

Please feel free to use all or portions of the lecture with attribution.

Powerpoint | PDF

Lectures on Life’s Financial Decisions

These are lectures that came out of my ECON 3559: Everyday Economics class that I taught in the University of Virginia Economics Department in 2019. I’ve found them very useful to send to friends/family when they’ve made big financial decisions.

• Buying vs Renting
  Lecture | Spreadsheet for comparing different car financing options

• Retirement Investing
  Lecture | Building your own retirement portfolio

• Insurance
  Life and Disability | Property | Spreadsheet for Choosing Health Insurance Plans

Discussions

Aftermath of a Payday Lending Shutdown (Mark Jensen, Zack Liu, Ryan Voges, Peter Young Won) - WEAI 2024

Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy (Samuel Antill, Megan Hunter) - Workshop on Financial Intermediation and Regulation 2023

Bank Competition and Entrepreneurial Gaps: Evidence from Banking Deregulation (Xiang Li) - SFS Cavalcade 2023

The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps (Bo Bian, Xinchen Ma, Huan Tang) - SFS Cavalcade 2023

Reducing Strategic Default in a Financial Crisis (Sumit Agarwal, Vyacheslav Mikhed, Barry Scholnick, Man Zhang) - NFA 2021

Race Disparities in Housing - NTA 2021

The Black-White Gap in Consumer Bankruptcy (Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Dana Scott, Jialan Wang) - SEA 2021

Gender discrimination in small business lending: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Turkey (J. Michelle Brock and Ralph De Haas) - EFA 2020

Asset Exemptions and Consumer Bankruptcies: Evidence from Individual Filings (Nathaniel Pattison, Richard M. Hynes) - CEA 2019

Seeking My Supervisor: Evidence from the Centralization of Banking Supervision in Europe (Itzhak Ben-David, Giovanni Cerulli, Franco Fiordelisi, and David Marques-Ibanez) - 27th Finance Forum 2019