Since the'80s the US has experienced not only a steady increase in income inequality, but
also a contemporaneous increase in residential segregation by income. Using US Census …

Abstract The United States has two types of “place-based” jobs problems: low employment
rates in 1) local labor markets and 2) neighborhoods. The local labor market problem can be …

This paper extends a canonical model of intergenerational human capital investment to a
geographic context to study the role of migration in influencing income mobility in the United …

We define educational access as the component of a neighborhood's value that is
determined by the set of schools available to its residents. This paper studies the extent to …

Abstract Housing Mobility Programs (HMPs) support residential mobility to reduce economic
segregation. One design feature of HMPs requires identifying areas to which moving will …

While rising house prices benefit existing homeowners, we document a new channel
through which price shocks have intergenerational wealth effects. Using panel data from …

Abstract The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program implemented in the'90s offered vouchers
to low-income people living in high-poverty neighborhoods to move to richer …

To study the role of competition for college admissions in driving parental investments and
its implications for child development policies, we develop a heterogeneous-agent life-cycle …

This dissertation contains two essays that study the economic causes and consequences of
international migration from the perspective of developing countries using quantitative …

We study the effects of the SRU law introduced in France in December 2000 to support
scattered development of public housing in cities and favor social mixity. This law imposes …