Household finance working group.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Household Finance, directed by Brigitte C. Madrian of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and Nicholas S. Souleles of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, met in Cambridge on December 16, 2011. The group discussed these papers:

* James J. Choi, Yale University and NBER; Emily Haisley, Barclays Bank PLC; Jennifer Kurkoski, Google, Inc.; and Cade Massey, Yale University, "Small Cues Change Savings Choices"

* Victor Stango, University of California at Davis, and Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER, "Borrowing High vs. Borrowing Higher: Sources and Consequences of Dispersion in Individual Borrowing Costs"

* Justine S. Hastings, Brown University and NBER, and Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER, "Advertising and Competition in Privatized Social Security: The Case of Mexico"

* Raymond Fisman...