Federal ID: 91-6001537
ISSN: 0022-1090 (Print) | 1756-6916 (Online)
Household Financial Decision-Making After Natural Disasters: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey
Alejandro del Valle, Therese Scharlemann, and Stephen Shore ♦ We study household credit responses to Hurricane Harvey using new, geographically granular data on credit cards, mortgages, and flooding. Estimates from a differences-in-differences design that exploits the flooding gradient show that…