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Ben McCartney

Assistant Professor of Commerce at University of Virginia
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Professor McCartney is an Assistant Professor of Commerce and the George A. Overstreet Jr. Distinguished Fellow in Real Estate at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. He also serves as the Director of Research at the Household and Urban Finance Lab at UVA.

His research investigates how social interactions, civic engagement, and politics connect household finance, real estate, and urban economics. His work has been published in leading economics and finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Urban Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies, and appeared in a number of prominent media outlets, including the New York Times.

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  • "A large share of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and say they would not be able to come up with $1,000 for an unexpected expense.” Based on the findings in his 2017 paper, “Does Household Finance Affect Elections? Evidence from a Housing Crisis,” a study of voting in the wake of the 2007-9 financial meltdown, McCartney said that he was “deeply concerned that household-level financial distress will decrease turnout, in addition to low turnout caused by the health crisis.”

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