Chicago Household Finance Conference Schedule
Note: The conference takes place at Rubsenstein Forum located at 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637. All presentations are in room 601. Breakfast and breaks will be in the Kapani Family Lounge (6th Floor) and lunch will be in room 602.
Thursday, April 16, 2026 |
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| Time (CT) | ||
| 8:30 a.m.— 9:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 a.m.— 9:40 a.m. |
Why do Certifications Certify , Harvard Business School |
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| 9:40 a.m.— 10:20 a.m. |
Consumption, Savings, and Earnings Responses to Financial Windfalls , University of Virginia |
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| 10:20 a.m.— 10:40 a.m. |
BREAK | |
| 10:40 a.m.— 11:20 a.m. |
Attitudes to Debt: The Role of Moral Values , MIT |
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| 11:20 a.m.— 12:00 p.m. |
Using Demand Estimation to Evaluate the Drivers of Household Investment Performance , Harvard University |
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| 12:00 p.m.— 1:00 p.m. |
LUNCH | |
| 1:00 p.m.— 1:40 p.m. |
, UC San Diego |
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| 1:40 p.m.— 2:20 p.m. |
Housing Heterogeneity and the Business Cycle: The Role of Micro and Macro Rigidities , Wharton |
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| 2:20 p.m.— 2:40 p.m. |
BREAK | |
| 2:40 p.m.— 3:20 p.m. |
Credit Scores and Inequality Across the Life Cycle , UW Madison |
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| 3:20 p.m.— 4:00 p.m. |
Credit Card Borrowing in Heterogeneous-Agent Models: Reconciling Theory and Data , UC Berkeley Haas |
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| 4:00 p.m.— 4:20 p.m. |
BREAK | |
| 4:20 p.m.— 5:30 p.m. |
Panel Discussion on "Fixed": Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone , Harvard University; , Yale DISSC, , Columbia |
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| 6:00 p.m.— 9:00 p.m. |
Dinner at the 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637 (note: dinner is for faculty and presenters only) |
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