Access to home equity and consumption: Evidence from a policy experiment

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 40-52

  Agarwal, Sumit ^a   Qian, Wenlan ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 85013636777     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00606     Document Type: Article

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