Paula Roth

Paula Roth is a Research Fellow at the Swedish House of Finance within the Department of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics. Her empirical research examines household financial behavior using Swedish register data, with expertise in econometric methods for causal inference.

Her core research spans household debt dynamics, health shock impacts on financial stability, and inequality-driven financial distress. She pioneers analyses of over-indebtedness mechanisms and risk-sharing in entrepreneurship, consistently leveraging Sweden's comprehensive longitudinal datasets to generate policy-relevant insights for financial regulation and social safety nets.

Publication trends reveal deepening integration of health economics with household finance, particularly how medical crises compound debt vulnerabilities. Her inequality research bridges micro-level relative deprivation effects and macro-level distributional shifts, establishing causal pathways between income gaps and household insolvency through innovative instrumental variable designs.

As part of the Swedish House of Finance research ecosystem, she contributes to interdisciplinary projects analyzing financial markets, household behavior, and policy interventions through the center's specialized data infrastructure including the SHoF Data Center.