Credit, Checks and Covid: The Role of Credit in Exacerbating (or Alleviating) Unequal Pandemic Outcomes

• In Event: How Credit and the Labor Market Shape Inequality

Brief Overview

How do state policies shape responses to federal policies? I analyze how debt-to-income ratios changed following the receipt of the COVID-19 stimulus checks across different regulatory environments for payday lending.

Author

• Grace Elizabeth Beals, Cornell University