staggered relaxation of branching restrictions in the 1990s across states, we find that banking deregulation decreases local …-white mortality gap. We further analyze the role of mortgage markets as a transmitter between banking deregulation and mortality and …

We assess the impact of bank deregulation on the distribution of income in the United States. From the 1970s through … performance. Exploiting the cross-state, cross-time variation in the timing of branch deregulation, we find that deregulation … little impact on incomes above the median. Bank deregulation tightened the distribution of income by increasing the relative …