This paper documents the increase in residential land prices in France over a twenty-five-years period. We estimate a land price function accounting for changes in urban size over time on a nation-wide sample. We take into account the concave relationship between lot price and lot surface and...

Economic theory points to two main mechanisms of residential income segregation : (i) the sorting according to distance to the center, resulting from a differenciated trade-off of households between accessibility to employment and housing prices and (ii) the sorting between municipalities,...