Household & Urban Finance Lab
Data
To support the production of high-caliber research across an array of related topics, the Household and Urban Finance Lab (HUF Lab) provides access and insights to UVA faculty through access to a robust suite of data maintained by the McIntire School of Commerce and the pan-UVA White Ruffin Byron Center for Real Estate.
These datasets provide comprehensive information and analytics across property, mortgage, consumer, financial, digital performance, marketing effectiveness, consumer and business credit, identity management, and other areas. They are housed in the Rivanna Research Computing Environment, so UVA researchers will need to be familiar with this high-performance computing (HPC) environment to access and use the data effectively.
CoreLogic
National coverage of residential parcel characteristics, ownership history, mortgage records, and building permits over time.
Used for:
Housing markets, neighborhood effects, mortgage dynamics
Experian
An anonymized subsample of Experian’s credit database, providing detailed measures of household credit behavior and financial outcomes.
Used for:
Household finance, credit access, refinancing behavior
Infutor
Person-level demographic and address history data, including aliases, residential mobility, and inferred consumption preferences.
Used for:
Mobility, neighborhood sorting, social spillovers
L2
National voter file data including registration, address, and turnout history.
Used for:
Politics, residential sorting, civic engagement