This chapter surveys the literature on housing in macroeconomics. We first collect facts on
house prices and quantities in both the time series and the cross section of households and …

We show how data from online social networking services can help researchers better
understand the effects of social interactions on economic decision making. We combine …

We test the theoretical prediction that house prices respond more strongly to changes in
local earnings in places with tight supply constraints using a unique panel dataset of 353 …

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal
migration in the United States. We begin by describing approaches to modeling individuals' …

This article uses short-run housing wealth changes to identify the effect of housing wealth on
college attendance. I find that households used their housing wealth to finance …

For decades, it was taken as a given that an increased homeownership rate was a desirable
goal. But after the financial crises and Great Recession, in which roughly eight million …

Differences in employment-population ratios across US commuting zones have persisted for
many decades. We claim these disparities represent real gaps in economic opportunity for …

We use NLSY97 data to examine how home price variation affects the quality of
postsecondary schools students attend. We find a 10,000increaseinhousingwealthincreasesthelikeli …

Homeowners at risk of default face a debt overhang that reduces their incentive to invest in
their property: in expectation, some value created by investments in the property will go to …

The real estate rental market (RERM) is considered to have an important role in the entire
real estate market. It refers to a property composed of land and its buildings, including the …