Consumer Bankruptcy and Financial Health
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Will Dobbie, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham & Crystal S. Yang, Consumer Bankruptcy and Financial Health (Harvard John M. Olin Discussion Paper Series Paper No. 821, Apr. 2015).Abstract
This paper estimates the effect of Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection on post-filing financial outcomes using a new dataset linking bankruptcy filings to credit bureau records. Our empirical strategy uses the leniency of randomly-assigned judges as an instrument for Chapter 13 protection. Over the first five post-filing years, we find that Chapter 13 protection decreases an index measuring adverse financial events such as civil judgments and repossessions by 0.316 standard deviations, increases the probability of being a homeowner by 13.2 percentage points, and increases credit scores by 14.9 points. Chapter 13 protection has little impact on open unsecured debt, but decreases the amount of debt in collections by $1,315.Other Sources
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2583581http://www.nber.org/papers/w21032
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/pgoldsmithpinkham/files/dgy_bankruptcy.pdf
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