Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management. Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's research interests include consumer & corporate finance, applied econometrics, and social networks. His current work focuses on consumer debt, with an eye towards questions of racial, ethnic and gender disparities. He also does work as an applied econometrician, examining methods commonly used by empirical researchers. Before joining Yale, Paul was a Research Economist at the