This paper uses US local areas as a laboratory to test for long-term impacts of the Great
Recession. In administrative longitudinal data, I estimate that exposure to a 1 percentage …

While researchers are increasingly re-conceptualizing international migration, far less
attention has been devoted to re-thinking short-distance residential mobility and immobility …

This paper examines the history of internal migration in the United States since the 1980s.
By most measures, internal migration in the United States is at a 30-year low. The …

We review the main distributional effects of the Great Recession and the ways in which
those effects have been organized into narratives. The Great Recession may affect poverty …

The role of real estate during the global financial and economic crisis has prompted efforts to
better incorporate housing and financial channels into macro models, improve housing …

America has become a nation of homebodies. Rates of interstate mobility, by most
estimates, have been falling for decades. Interstate mobility rates are particularly low and …

From the perspective of a wide range of labor market outcomes, the recession that began in
2007 represents the deepest downturn in the postwar era. Early on, the nature of labor …

This paper compares a number of housing policies such as housing taxation, land use and
rental regulations and social housing policies for OECD countries relying on new data …

The financial crisis showed, once again, that neglecting real estate booms can have
disastrous consequences. In this paper, we spell out the circumstances under which a more …

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' …