Research Roundup

We summarize five papers: “The Sustainability of U.S. Household Finances," “The Great Debt Boom: 1949-2013,” “Living Below the Line: Economic Insecurity and Older Americans in the States, 2016,” “Building Emergency Savings Through Employer-Sponsored Rainy Day Accounts,” and “Dodged a Bullet? ‘Rothification’ Likely to Reduce Retirement Saving.”