-in, and property tax lock-in - on household mobility. We add the 2009 wave of the American Housing Survey (AHS) to our sample … household mobility by 30 percent, and $1,000 of additional mortgage or property tax costs reduces household mobility by 10 …%-16%. Schulhofer-Wohl's finding of a slight positive correlation between mobility and negative equity appears due to a large fraction …

We exploit a volcanic “experiment" to study the costs and benefits of geographic mobility. We show that moving costs …