Since 1980, college-educated workers have been steadily moving into affluent cities while
non-college workers have been moving out. One likely reason is that employment and …

New apartment buildings offer potential relief from high housing costs, but they encounter
significant local opposition. Using a vignette survey experiment, we explore why citizens …

Workers in denser, larger cities have higher wages, though recent research suggests this
“urban wage premium” varies for different groups. This paper asks whether changes in …

Governments are committing to realizing the energy transition to create a sustainable and
resilient energy future, while less is known about the real effects of the energy transition on …

Productivity gains enable real wage growth and improved standards of living. But whose
income actually benefits from productivity gains when highly productivity urban locations in …

We study the aftermath of the 1968 Washington, DC civil disturbance to illuminate the
mechanisms that drive urban redevelopment in the presence of low demand and racial …

The aim of this article is to analyze the contribution of social ties to moving to high-
opportunity locations and assess whether their effect is more pronounced for low-income …

We argue that exclusionary zoning—the imposition of restrictions on the amount and types
of housing that property owners are allowed to build—is unconstitutional because it violates …

We construct a novel dataset tracking households across property purchases covering 25
years of moves within the US We find that information frictions in residential real estate …

A growing body of literature has shown that innumerable discretionary choices of home
buyers and sellers spread the effects of housing supply conditions throughout a metropolitan …