Abstract The Great Recession and the unfolding COVID-19 Pandemic Recession—two
major disruptions to the economy that occurred just one decade apart—unequivocally …

Access to credit may have a direct effect on achieving United Nations (UN) Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) in ending poverty, improving health and education, and …

The contemporary practice of homeownership in the United States was born out of
government programs adopted during the New Deal. The Home Owners Loan Corporation …

Childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers
conflicting accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of—and mechanisms …

Despite their ubiquity in academic and commercial research, evidence of the usefulness of
consumer confidence indices is mixed. To contribute to this debate, we examine the …

Research has made clear that neighbourhood conditions affect racial inequality. We
examine how living in minority neighbourhoods affects ease of access to conventional …

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage,
kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to …

In the thirty years since Massey and Denton's American Apartheid, sociological scholarship
on segregation has proliferated, calling attention to the ways in which the social geography …

Past research has demonstrated the racially and spatially uneven impacts of economic
shocks and environmental disasters on various markets. In this article, we examine if and …

US consumers may turn to the private market for credit when income and government
benefits fall short. The most vulnerable consumers have access only to the highest-cost …