Millions of people have turned to crowdfunding platforms to raise money for medical care and stave off bankruptcy. This collection of research examines the trend from multiple angles.
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2015 working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research that assesses how job loss, negative home equity and other types of “financial shock” influence whether homeowners default on mortgages
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Overview of how to write stories about the markets, including stocks, bonds and more
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2015 report from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis looks at how higher education affects the ability of different racial groups to accumulate wealth and overcome financial hardship.
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2015 study by Harvard and the American Enterprise Institute that examines the range of options governments have used to manage their levels of public debt.
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2015 roundup of research relating to Americans who have dropped out of the labor force, including the changing nature of new jobs and the human impacts of unemployment.
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Study from the University of California, Berkeley on how different social and economic strata in the United States fared during and after the Great Recession.
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2014 study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry on the Great Recession’s effects on suicide rates, based on World Health Organization and CDC data.
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2014 paper in OECD Social, Employment, and Migration Working Papers on the rise of top earners among wealthy, developed countries.
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2014 study in Annual Review of Political Science looking at the impact of the Great Recession and demographic shifts on state and local finance.
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