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ArticleSocial indicators research2022

Financial Shocks and Financial Well-Being: What Builds Resiliency in Lower-Income Households?

Sam Bufe, Stephen Roll, Olga Kondratjeva, Stephanie Skees, Michal Grinstein-Weiss

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Article in Social indicators research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sam BufeSocial Policy Institute, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA.
Stephen RollSocial Policy Institute, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4015-7742
Olga KondratjevaSocial Policy Institute, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA.
Stephanie SkeesSocial Policy Institute, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA.
Michal Grinstein-WeissSocial Policy Institute, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA.
Washington University in St. Louis · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Households in the U.S. regularly experience unexpected negative income or expense shocks, and low- and moderate-income households experience these shocks at disproportionately high rates. Relatively little is known about the impact these shocks have on households' subjective sense of financial well-being, and how access to different types of liquidity (e.g., liquid assets, credit cards, social resources, and income flows) can mitigate the impact of these shocks on subjective financial well-being. To address these gaps in the literature, this paper uses data from a two-wave survey administered to 3,911 low- and moderate-income tax filers in 2018. Applying a difference-in-difference analysis, we find that the experience of an income shock between survey waves was associated with a large decline in subjective financial well-being, while the experience of an expense shock was associated with a more modest decline. Relatively liquidity-constrained households tended to be more negatively impacted by shocks than their counterparts, though not all sources of liquidity were equally as effective in buffering households against shocks. The findings of this paper point to the need for policymakers and program administrators to develop tools that can facilitate access to different types of liquidity to offset different financial risks for households.

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Economic shocksFinancial well-beingLiquid assetsLow-incomeResilience

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PMID34697514
PMCPMC8528660
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