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Recent Trends in Housing Conditions Among the Urban Poor

Blank, Rebecca M. - 1989

In this paper we examine the trends in housing conditions among the urban poor over the last decade, relate these trends to the economic environments of the cities, and compare the poor to other income groups. We find that there has been a substantial decrease in "housing independence" -- among...

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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor

Bessone, Pedro - 2020

This paper measures sleep among the urban poor in India and estimates the economic returns to increased sleep. Adults in Chennai have strikingly low quantity and quality of sleep relative to typical guidelines: despite spending 8 hours in bed, they achieve only 5.6 hours per night of sleep, with...

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The Effects of the Colombian Trade Liberalization on Urban Poverty

Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou - 2005

We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and … 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the … chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with the trade reforms over this period, we do not observe any evidence of a link …

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Urban Renewal and Inequality : Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions

Almagro, Milena; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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. Focusing on Chicago, we study welfare and racial disparities in the impacts of demolitions using a structural model that...

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Eviction and Poverty in American Cities

Collinson, Robert; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

More than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them each year. Policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to reduce the number of evictions, citing harm to tenants and high public expenditures related to homelessness. We...

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Immediate and Longer-Term Housing Market Effects of a Major U.S. Airport Closure

Cohen, Jeffrey P.; Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Crews, Jonas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A busy airport's closure has large effects on noise, real estate markets, and neighborhood demographics. Using a unique dataset, we examine the effects of closing Denver's Stapleton Airport on nearby housing markets. We find evidence of immediate anticipatory price effects upon announcement, but...

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Racial Disparities in Housing Returns

Kermani, Amir; Wong, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We document the existence of a racial gap in realized housing returns that is an order of magnitude larger than disparities arising from housing costs alone, and is driven almost entirely by differences in distressed home sales (i.e. foreclosures and short sales). Black and Hispanic homeowners...

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The 2000s Housing Cycle With 2020 Hindsight : A Neo-Kindlebergerian View

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel; Guren, Adam M.; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

With "2020 hindsight," the 2000s housing cycle is not a boom-bust but rather a boom- bust-rebound at both the national level and across cities. We argue this pattern reflects a larger role for fundamentally-rooted explanations than previously thought. We construct a city-level long-run...

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The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market

Christensen, Peter; Timmins, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

By constraining an individual's choice during a search, housing discrimination distorts sorting decisions away from true preferences and results in a ceteris paribus reduction in welfare. This study combines a large-scale field experiment with a residential sorting model to derive...

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Human-Algorithm Interactions : Evidence from Zillow.com

Fu, Runshan; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using bi-weekly snapshots of Zillow in three US cities, we document how home sellers and buyers interact with Zillow's Zestimate algorithm during the sales cycle of residential properties. We find that listing and selling outcomes respond significantly to Zestimate, and Zestimate is quickly...

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