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Competition
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Anticompetitive Conduct
- Antitrust Enforcement
- Concentration
Families
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how unequal access to care, 21st century work-life policies, and education undermines stable, broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Childcare & Early Education
- Economic Wellbeing
- Health
- K-12
- Post-secondary Education
Inequality & Mobility
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how trends in economic inequality and mobility and changes in the economy have affected the concentration of wealth, income, and earnings, and how these distributional shifts have affected the promise of economic security and opportunity. More
- Topics:
- Economic Inequality
- Economic Mobility
- Economics of Place
- GDP 2.0
- Gender
- Income & Earnings Volatility
- Poverty
- Race & Ethnicity
Labor
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- AI, tech, & the economy
- Bargaining Power
- Job Mobility
- Minimum Wage
- Monopsony
- Paid Leave
- Pay Equity
- Schedule Stability
- Unemployment Insurance
- Wage Stagnation
Tax & Macroeconomics
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how tax and macroeconomic policies can promote stable and broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Business Taxation
- Climate
- Credit & Debt
- Fiscal Policy
- Individual Taxation
- Monetary Policy
- Taxes, Inequality & Growth

Topic Credit & Debt

Credit and debt play a critical role in U.S. economic fluctuations, and changes in inequality drive changes in both the demand and supply of credit in the economy. Equitable Growth examines the role of credit and debt in the economy and seeks to understand these intersections and understand how best to ensure that the financial sector serves the public interest.

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A Goldilocks Theory of Fiscal Deficits

By Atif Mian, Ludwig Straub, Amir Sufi,

June 30, 2022

June 30, 2022

Atif Mian, Ludwig Straub, Amir Sufi,

Tax & Macroeconomics

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TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy

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Uncertainty about the size of annual tax refunds hinders the effectiveness of tax-based U.S. redistribution

By Sydnee Caldwell, Scott Nelson, Daniel Waldinger,

April 8, 2021

April 8, 2021

Sydnee Caldwell, Scott Nelson, Daniel Waldinger,

Tax & Macroeconomics Inequality & Mobility

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TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Income & Earnings Volatility, Individual Taxation

Vision 2020

The logistics of a reparations program in the United States

By Dania Francis,

February 18, 2020

February 18, 2020

Dania Francis,

Tax & Macroeconomics Inequality & Mobility Families

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TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Economic Inequality, Economic Mobility, Economic Wellbeing, Economics of Place, Gender, Poverty, Race & Ethnicity, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

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Encouraging banks to serve the credit needs of everyone

By Claudia Sahm,

February 3, 2020

February 3, 2020

Claudia Sahm,

Tax & Macroeconomics Inequality & Mobility

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TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Economics of Place, Monetary Policy, Poverty, Race & Ethnicity

Vision 2020

Promote economic and racial justice: Eliminate student loan debt and establish a right to higher education across the United States

By Darrick Hamilton, Naomi Zewde,

February 18, 2020

February 18, 2020

Darrick Hamilton, Naomi Zewde,

Inequality & Mobility Families Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Economic Mobility, Economic Wellbeing, Economics of Place, Gender, Job Mobility, Post-secondary Education, Poverty, Race & Ethnicity, Wage Stagnation

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Issue Brief: Household insecurity matters for U.S. macroeconomic stability

By Nisha Chikhale,

May 16, 2018

May 16, 2018

Nisha Chikhale,

Tax & Macroeconomics Inequality & Mobility Families

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TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Economic Inequality, Economic Wellbeing

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The evolution of state-local balance sheets in the US, 1953-2013

By J.W. Mason, Arjun Jayadev, Amanda Page-Hoongrajok,

July 11, 2017

July 11, 2017

J.W. Mason, Arjun Jayadev, Amanda Page-Hoongrajok,

Tax & Macroeconomics

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TOPICS: Credit & Debt

Past Event

Seminar Series: Debt Sustainability in a Low Interest Rate World (Invitation only)

July 12, 2017 12:15PM - 1:30PM

Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

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Home is where the government subsidy is

By Nick Bunker,

May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Tax & Macroeconomics Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Economic Wellbeing, Individual Taxation, Taxes, Inequality & Growth

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How the opening to China may have partially fueled the U.S. housing bubble

By Nick Bunker,

May 11, 2017

May 11, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Tax & Macroeconomics Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Economic Wellbeing

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Bad credit, no problem? Credit and labor market consequences of bad credit reports

By Will Dobbie, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Neale Mahoney, Jae Song,

May 9, 2017

May 9, 2017

Will Dobbie, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Neale Mahoney, Jae Song,

Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

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Should policymakers worry about the level of debt or the pace of credit growth?

By Nick Bunker,

May 1, 2017

May 1, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Tax & Macroeconomics

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TOPICS: Credit & Debt

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The student loan crisis is fueled by a weak labor market

By Kavya Vaghul,

April 26, 2017

April 26, 2017

Kavya Vaghul,

Tax & Macroeconomics Inequality & Mobility Families Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Economic Mobility, Income & Earnings Volatility, Post-secondary Education

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What kind of fiscal policy works best at the zero lower bound?

By Nick Bunker,

March 23, 2017

March 23, 2017

Nick Bunker,

Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Fiscal Policy

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The impact of consumer credit access on employment, earnings and entrepreneurship

By Kyle Herkenhoff, Gordon Phillips, Ethan Cohen-Cole,

February 28, 2017

February 28, 2017

Kyle Herkenhoff, Gordon Phillips, Ethan Cohen-Cole,

Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

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The U.S. minimum wage improves access to traditional lines of credit

By John Schmitt,

February 22, 2017

February 22, 2017

John Schmitt,

Tax & Macroeconomics Labor

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TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Minimum Wage

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Lost in fiscal space: Some simple analytics of macroeconomic policy in the spirit of Tinbergen, Wicksell and Lerner

By J.W. Mason, Arjun Jayadev,

November 1, 2016

November 1, 2016

J.W. Mason, Arjun Jayadev,

Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt

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What new administrative data reveals about access to consumer credit and the U.S. economy

By Kyle Herkenhoff, Gordon Phillips,

October 31, 2016

October 31, 2016

Kyle Herkenhoff, Gordon Phillips,

Tax & Macroeconomics Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Credit & Debt, Unemployment Insurance

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