Climate and Household Finance

(3 Credits)

This 14-week, 3-credit PhD course presents research topics in the growing area of Household and Consumer Finance. Each week, we will read a number of a papers in one area of research within household finance. Most of the papers will be empirical, and in many weeks our discussions will focus on how the papers we read use various empirical strategies (instrumental variables estimation, differences-in-differences estimation, regression discontinuity estimation, field experiment) to identify causal effects. The topics are chosen to give students a broad overview of the types of topics under the “household finance” umbrella, and to introduce them both to seminal and to current research papers in the area.