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Household Mobility, Networks, and Gentrification of Minority Neighborhoods in the US

Ferreira, Fernando Vendramel; Kenney, Jeanna H.; Smith, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how recent gentrification shocks impact Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, including where minority households … partially explained by neighborhood networks. We then use Bartik-style labor market income shocks to show that gentrification … has many effects. In Black neighborhoods, gentrification increases house prices and reduces the share of Black households …

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Residential Mobility and Mortgages

Chan, Sewin - 1995

Mortgage applications are a detailed and accurate source of household information that is verified by underwriters, making it a more accurate data source than self-reported survey answers. This paper discusses how mortgage data can be applied to areas of economics outside mortgage finance. As a...

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Empirics of Strategic Interdependence : The Case of the Racial Tipping Point

Easterly, William - 2009

The Schelling model of a "tipping point" in racial segregation, in which whites flee a neighborhood once a threshold of nonwhites is reached, is a canonical model of strategic interdependence. The idea of "tipping" explaining segregation is widely accepted in the academic literature and popular...

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The Productivity of Schools and Other Local Public Goods Providers

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 1999

I construct an agency model of local public goods producers with special reference to public schools. The model assumes that households make Tiebout choices among jurisdictions, but it has more realistic assumptions about information and the cost of residential mobility. I examine producers'...

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Memory and Reference Prices : an Application to Rental Choice

Bordalo, Pedro - 2019

Simonsohn and Loewenstein (SL 2006) present evidence that a household moving from one US city to another tends to pay a rent level that is closer to the city of origin, relative to comparable locals. Building on "Memory, Attention, and Choice" (BGS 2019), we show that these effects emerge from...

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Creating Moves to Opportunity : Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice

Bergman, Peter - 2019

Low-income families in the United States tend to live in neighborhoods that offer limited opportunities for upward income mobility. One potential explanation for this pattern is that families prefer such neighborhoods for other reasons, such as affordability or proximity to family and jobs. An...

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Mobility Zones

Monte, Ferdinando - 2020

This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual mobility directly or indirectly connects all...

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Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina

Deryugina, Tatyana - 2018

We follow Medicare cohorts over time and space to estimate Hurricane Katrina's long-run mortality effects on elderly and disabled victims initially living in New Orleans. Inclusive of the initial shock, the hurricane improved survival eight years past the storm by 1.74 percentage points....

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Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search

Marinescu, Ioana - 2016

Could we significantly reduce U.S. unemployment by helping job seekers move closer to jobs? Using data from the leading employment board CareerBuilder.com, we show that, indeed, workers dislike applying to distant jobs: job seekers are 35% less likely to apply to a job 10 miles away from their...

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Housing Busts and Household Mobility : An Update

Ferreira, Fernando - 2011

This paper provides updated estimates of the impact of three financial frictions - negative equity, mortgage lock-in, and property tax lock-in - on household mobility. We add the 2009 wave of the American Housing Survey (AHS) to our sample and also create an improved measure of permanent moves...

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