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Shirley Chiu is an associate economist in the Consumer and Community Affairs (CCA) department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She is responsible for creating and manipulating a variety of data sets, and performing statistical analyses to support economic research projects by CCA’s Consumer Issues Research group. Her current projects include research on the effects of home country institutional quality on immigrant financial access in the United States.
Robin Newberger is a business economist in the consumer issues research group of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Ms. Newberger holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a Masters in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Ms. Newberger’s areas of interest include the savings behavior of low-income individuals and welfare usage among immigrants. Ms. Newberger holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Anna Paulson is a senior economist and manager in the Consumer Issues Research group of the Consumer and Community Affairs division at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Paulson’s primary research focuses on how households cope with risk and incomplete financial markets. Her research includes studies on the financial assimilation of immigrants as well as the dynamics of entrepreneurship. Before joining the Chicago Fed, she was a faculty member in the finance department at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Chiu, S., Newberger, R. & Paulson, A. Islamic finance in the United States. Soc 42, 64–68 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687517
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687517