Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Author "Yang, Crystal"

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    • Consumer Bankruptcy and Financial Health 

      Dobbie, Will; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul Simon; Yang, Crystal Siming (2015)
      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 ...

    • Resource Constraints and the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Judicial Vacancies 

      Yang, Crystal Siming (Harvard John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, 2015)
      Ten percent of federal judgeships are currently vacant, yet little is known on the impact of these vacancies on criminal justice outcomes. Using judge deaths and pension eligibility as instruments for judicial vacancies, ...