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 …

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic …

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 literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there
is limited knowledge about whether these measures provide similar information and yield …

We develop a framework to estimate the economic value of a recent zoning reform in Sao
Paulo. Using a block-level regression discontinuity design, we find that developers request …

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 …

We study the city-wide effects of new, centrally-located market-rate housing supply using
geo-coded population-wide register data from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The supply of …

To study the effects of neighborhood and place-based interventions, this paper incorporates
neighborhood effects into a general equilibrium (GE) heterogeneous-agent …

Lack of affordable housing is a growing and often primary policy concern in cities throughout
the world. The main underlying cause for the “affordability crisis,” which has been mounting …

In recent years, many papers in environmental economics have considered the household's
decision to invest in energy-efficient technologies for their home. The vast majority of these …