Sylvain Catherine

University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

The Wharton School

3620 Locust Walk

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

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Scholarly Papers (12)

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Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 14 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2023
Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, Harvard Business School, Finance Unit and Yale University Law School and Yale School of Management
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Social Security, Inequality, Top Wealth Shares

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Quantifying Reduced-Form Evidence on Collateral Constraints

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 05 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2021
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, SciencesPo - Sciences Po - Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen - School of Management and Economics and Shenzhen Finance Institute, University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Structural model, Financing Constraint, Aggregate Implications

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Countercyclical Labor Income Risk and Portfolio Choices over the Life Cycle

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 13 May 2016 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2021
Sylvain Catherine
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Household finance, Labor income risk, Portfolio choices, Human capital, Life-cycle model, Simulated method of moments

The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2020-169
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 03 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2021
Sylvain Catherine and Constantine Yannelis
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Chicago
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The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness

NBER Working Paper No. w28175
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 07 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2023
Sylvain Catherine and Constantine Yannelis
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Chicago
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Countercyclical Income Risk and Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Sweden

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Swedish House of Finance Research Paper No. 20-20
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2023
Sylvain Catherine, Paolo Sodini and Yapei Zhang
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, Stockholm School of Economics - Department of Finance and ShanghaiTech University - School of Entrepreneurship and Management
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Household finance, Asset pricing, Disaster risk, Labor income risk, Portfolio choices

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Correcting Empirical and Conceptual Errors in Eaton, Goldstein, Hamilton and Wherry (2021)

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Jun 2021
Sylvain Catherine and Constantine Yannelis
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Chicago
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Student Debt

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Keeping Options Open: What Motivates Entrepreneurs?

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 21 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2019
Sylvain Catherine
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Entrepreneurship, Life-Cycle Model, Structural Estimation, Learning

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Relaxing Household Liquidity Constraints through Social Security

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 May 2020 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2023
Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, Harvard Business School, Finance Unit and Yale University Law School and Yale School of Management
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COVID-19, Social Security, Household Finance

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Labor Market Risk and the Private Value of Social Security

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2019
Sylvain Catherine
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Household Finance, Social Security, Public Liabilities, Portfolio Choices, Human Capital, Labor Income Risk

Robustness Checks in Structural Analysis

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6799-22, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 22 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2023
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, Stockholm School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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structural estimation; robustness; computational methods

Robustness Checks in Structural Analysis

NBER Working Paper No. w30443
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 12 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, Stockholm School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Interest-rate risk and household portfolios

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 02 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2023
Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, James D. Paron and Natasha Sarin
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, Harvard Business School, Finance Unit, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Yale University Law School and Yale School of Management
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Interest rates, Portfolio choices, Inequality, Social Security

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Social Security and the Racial Wealth Gap

Wharton Pension Research Council Working Paper No. 2023-19
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Oct 2023
Sylvain Catherine and Natasha Sarin
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Yale University Law School and Yale School of Management
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wealth, inequality, Social Security, racial wealth differences