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Gentrification has provoked considerable debate and controversy about its effects on neighborhoods and the people … effects of gentrification across neighborhoods and subpopulations. Residents in gentrifying neighborhoods have slightly higher …-income neighborhood. Moreover, gentrification is associated with some positive changes in residents' financial health as measured by …
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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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City-level policies often aim at attracting skilled workers by improving urban amenities. However, due to endogeneity problems, studies relying on revealed preferences have difficulties in providing evidence for the basic premise that skilled workers place a higher value on urban amenities than...
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Migration typically leads to higher income, but its association with life satisfaction remains unclear. Is migration accompanied by an increase in life satisfaction? If it is, is the increase in income responsible or are other life domains driving the satisfaction changes? These two questions...
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