Neighborhoods matter: Assessing the evidence for place effects

E Chyn, LF Katz - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021 - aeaweb.org
How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes?
Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social …

The opportunity atlas: Mapping the childhood roots of social mobility

R Chetty, JN Friedman, N Hendren, MR Jones… - 2018 - nber.org
We construct a publicly available atlas of children's outcomes in adulthood by Census tract
using anonymized longitudinal data covering nearly the entire US population. For each tract …

Creating moves to opportunity: Experimental evidence on barriers to neighborhood choice

P Bergman, R Chetty, S DeLuca… - American Economic …, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
Low-income families often live in low-upward-mobility neighborhoods. We study why by
using a randomized trial with housing voucher recipients that provided information, financial …

Location sorting and endogenous amenities: Evidence from amsterdam

M Almagro, T Domínguez-Iino - 2024 - nber.org
This paper shows the endogeneity of amenities plays a crucial role in determining the
welfare distribution of a city's residents. We quantify this mechanism by building a dynamic …

The microgeography of housing supply

N Baum-Snow, L Han - Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We perform a comprehensive neighborhood-level analysis of housing supply. Predictions of
floor space and housing unit supply elasticities using our estimates average 0.5 and 0.3 …

Affordable housing and city welfare

J Favilukis, P Mabille… - The Review of Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Housing affordability is the main policy challenge for most large cities in the world. Zoning
changes, rent control, housing vouchers, and tax credits are the main levers employed by …

Urban Renewal and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions

M Almagro, E Chyn, BA Stuart - 2023 - nber.org
This paper studies one of the largest spatially targeted redevelopment efforts implemented
in the United States: public housing demolitions sponsored by the HOPE VI program …

Distinguishing causes of neighborhood racial change: A nearest neighbor design

P Bayer, MD Casey, WB McCartney, J Orellana-Li… - 2022 - nber.org
Whether contemporary households consider the race of their neighbors when choosing a
neighborhood is controversial. We study neighborhood choice using a novel research …

Housing search frictions: Evidence from detailed search data and a field experiment

P Bergman, EW Chan, A Kapor - 2020 - nber.org
We randomized school quality information onto the listings of a nationwide housing website
for low-income families. We use this variation and data on families' search and location …

An equilibrium analysis of the effects of neighborhood-based interventions on children

E Chyn, D Daruich - 2022 - nber.org
To study the effects of neighborhood and place-based interventions, this paper incorporates
neighborhood effects into a general equilibrium (GE) heterogeneous-agent …