Household finance.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Household Finance held a conference on "Research Findings and Implications for Policy" in Washington on November 21, 2014. Directors Brigitte Madrian of Harvard University and Stephen Zeldes of Columbia University chose these papers to discuss:

* Stefania Albanesi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Jaromir Nosal, Columbia University, "Insolvency After the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform"

* Justine Hastings, Brown University and NBER; Christopher Neilson, New York University; and Seth Zimmerman, Princeton University, "Student Loans, College Choice, and Information on the Returns to Higher Education"

* Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER; Benjamin Iverson, Northwestern University; and Peter Tufano, University of Oxford and NBER, "Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-linked Savings Accounts"

* Joanne Hsu, Federal Reserve Board; David Matsa, Northwestern University and NBER; and Brian Melzer, Northwestern University, "Positive...