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    Replication Data for: "Access to Home Equity and Consumption: Evidence from a Policy Experiment"

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    Agarwal, Sumit, and Qian, Wenlan, (2017) "Access to Home Equity and Consumption: Evidence from a Policy Experiment." Review of Economics and Statistics 99:1, 40-52

    Replication Data for: "Access to Home Equity and Consumption: Evidence from a Policy Experiment"

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    Agarwal, Sumit, and Qian, Wenlan, (2017) "Access to Home Equity and Consumption: Evidence from a Policy Experiment." Review of Economics and Statistics 99:1, 40-52

    Matching in Housing Markets: The Role of Ethnic Social Networks

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    This paper investigates the role of ethnic matching between buyers and sellers in Singapore's public housing market. We find that sellers sell homes in blocks with a high concentration of their own (other) ethnic group(s) at significant premiums (discounts). Chinese sellers earn 1.7% higher premiums when selling homes to Chinese buyers in high Chinese concentrations housing blocks, but Malay sellers accept 1.6% discounts from Malay buyers in the same blocks. We find that the high volume of within-ethnicity transactions with the price discounts is supported by the ethnic social networks, that is, through ethnicity-specialized real estate agents.

    The age of reason: financial decisions over the lifecycle

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    The sophistication of financial decisions varies with age: middle-aged adults borrow at lower interest rates and pay fewer fees compared to both younger and older adults. We document this pattern in ten financial markets. The measured effects cannot be explained by observed risk characteristics. The sophistication of financial choices peaks around age 53 in our cross-sectional data. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that financial sophistication rises and then falls with age, although the patterns that we observe represent a mix of age effects and cohort effects.Financial institutions ; Loans

    Interest Rate Pass-Through and Consumption Response: the Deposit Channel

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    Agarwal, Sumit, Chomsisengphet, Souphala, Yildirim, Yildiray, and Zhang, Jian, (2021) “Interest Rate Pass-Through and Consumption Response: The Deposit Channel.” Review of Economics and Statistics 103:5, 922–938

    The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle

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    In cross-sectional data sets from ten credit markets, we find that middle-aged adults borrow at lower interest rates and pay fewer fees relative to younger and older adults. Fee and interest payments are minimized around age 53. The measured effects are not explained by observed risk characteristics. We discuss several leading factors that may contribute to these effects, including age-related changes in experience and cognitive function, selection effects, and cohort effects.
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