Benetton, Matteo; Kudlyak, Marianna; Mondragon, John - 2022
Using a nationally representative panel of consumer credit records for the US from 1999 to 2021, we document a positive …, controlling for cohort, zip code, age, and the credit-worthiness of parents and children, we find that children whose parents … parents extract equity. Third, using variation in equity extraction induced by households near leverage constraints, we find …