Do Payday Lenders Target Minorities

Donald Morgan and Kevin J. Pan

No 20120208, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Payday lenders make small, short-term loans to millions of households across the country. Though popular with users, the credit is controversial in part because payday lenders are accused of targeting their seemingly high-priced credit at minority households. In this post, we look at whether black and Hispanic households are in fact more likely to use payday credit. We find that, unconditionally, they are, but once we control for financial characteristics?such as past delinquency, debt-to-income ratios, and credit availability, blacks and Hispanics are not significantly more likely than whites to use payday credit.

Keywords: minorities.; Payday lending; targeting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G1 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-02-08
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