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Examines whether political considerations drive regulators to pursue more aggressive Fair Housing Act enforcement as a credible signaling strategy, using variation in prosecution patterns and settlement outcomes across lending institutions.
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Exploits administrative reclassifications of county conforming loan limits as an exogenous shock to housing wealth to estimate whether asset gains shift homeowners’ preferences for redistributive policy.
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Uses as-if random measurement error in Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs reports as a natural experiment to estimate the effect of economic information on consumer sentiment, via a regression discontinuity design applied to the Michigan Survey of Consumers.