Debt Relief and Debtor Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Consumer Bankruptcy Protection

By W. Dobbie, Jae Song. 2015

302 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Demography, Economics and Econometrics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e9f14dc9718e0259f6d9a218c460ed4501c47adb

Citations in the corpus

• Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions (2021, unknown): “Prominent “judge IV” examples include Kling (2006), Maestas et al. (2013), and Dobbie and Song (2015). bias term that is generally non-zero.”
• Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective (2014, unknown): “The starting point in the statistics literature, going back to Fisher (1925) and Splawa-Neyman (1990), is the randomized experiment, with both Fisher and Neyman motivated by agricultural applications where the units of analysis are plots of land. To be specific, suppose we are interested in the aver”
• Judging Judge Fixed Effects (2019, unknown): “…outcomes (Gupta et al., 2016; Leslie and Pope, 2017; Dobbie et al., 2018a), the effect of consumer bankruptcy on household financial well-being (Dobbie and Song, 2015; Dobbie et al., 2017), the effect of bankruptcy on firm outcomes (Chang and Schoar, 2013), the effect of foster care on child…”
• Economics, Fairness and Algorithmic Bias (2020, unknown): “Dobbie et al. (2018a) use a similar strategy to measure bias in lending by using random variation in the assignment of loan examiners to applicants.”
• Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts* (2015, unknown): “Patent Invalidation and Cumulative Innovation”
• Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment (2016, unknown): “Kling (2006) presents results suggesting that time in prison improves labor market outcomes after release, although the IV estimates based on quasi-random assignment of judges are too imprecise to draw firm conclusions.”
• Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital, and Future Crime: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges* (2015, unknown): “6Chang and Schoar (2008) and Dobbie and Song (2013) employ a similar strategy using judges assigned to bankruptcy cases, Maestas, Mullen and Strand (2013) use disability examiner propensities to approve disability claims, and Doyle (2008) uses case worker propensities to place children in foster…”
• A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing (2017, unknown): “…al. (2018) and find that 22This procedure is very commonly used in the criminal justice literature when judges differ in their punitiveness (Kling, 2006; Dobbie and Song, 2015) We use this approach to evaluate how individuals respond to their ticket in a follow-up paper, Goncalves and Mello (2017).”
• Bad Credit, No Problem? Credit and Labor Market Consequences of Bad Credit Reports (2020, unknown): “See Dobbie, Goldsmith-Pinkham and Yang (2015) for an analysis of pre- and post-filing trends in credit scores, delinquencies, collection items, and other credit market outcomes, and see Dobbie and Song (2015) for an analogous analysis on pre- and post-filing trends in labor market outcomes.”