This paper develops and estimates a dynamic general equilibrium overlapping generations model of career decisions. The model is fit to data on life cycle employment, schooling and occupation decisions, and on life cycle labor earnings, within and between cohorts observed in the US between 1968...

Using a rich database of non-prime mortgages from New York City, we find that census tract level neighborhood characteristics are important predictors of default behavior, even after controlling for an extensive set of controls for loan and borrower characteristics. First, default rates increase...