We thank the editor, Robert DeYoung, an anonymous referee, Todd Gormley, Mark Jenkins, Paul Landefeld, Donald Morgan, Nick Roussanov, Luke Taylor, and Jeremy Tobacman for helpful feedback, in addition to seminar participants in the Wharton class, the GW/FRB/GFLEC Financial Literacy Seminar while the Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Workshop. I’m grateful to Jimmy Lee, Ryan Pfirrmann‐Powell, Geoffrey Paulin, Arcenis Rojas, among others within the Division for the Consumer Expenditure Survey during the Bureau of Labor Statistics for help accessing the Consumer that is confidential Expenditure files, and I also have always been grateful to Paul Amos regarding the Wharton GIS lab for advice about GIS. The Jay H. Baker Retailing Center in the Wharton class supplied nice economic help for the task before the writer’s work using the Federal Reserve. Aftereffects of Use Of High‐Cost Credit.” The analysis and conclusions expressed in this paper are the ones regarding the writer and never always mirror the views for the Board of Governors associated with Federal Reserve System, its people, or its staff. This research had been carried out with limited use of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data. The views right here try not to fundamentally reflect the views associated with BLS.
Abstract
In this paper, We reveal that high‐cost credit helps households smooth consumption after durations of short-term monetary distress. After experiencing distress—that is, extreme climate events—I realize that access to high‐cost payday lending mitigates declines in general investing and nondurable items investing generally speaking.