We use a population resettlement program in Indonesia to identify long-run effects of
intergroup contact on national integration. In the 1980s, the government relocated two …

We combine community‐level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland
with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards …

Political identity and partisanship are salient features of today's society. Using deeds records
and voter rolls, we show that current residents are more likely to sell their homes when …

This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation
in the United States. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action …

We test for pricing disparities in mortgage contracts using a novel data set that allows us to
observe the race and ethnicity of both parties to the loan. We find that minorities pay …

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 …

The regression kink (RK) design is an increasingly popular empirical method for estimating
causal effects of policies, such as the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment …

We use data from a housing-assistance experiment to estimate a model of neighborhood
choice. The experimental variation effectively randomizes the rents which households face …

Singapore has developed a unique housing system, with three-quarters of its housing stock
built by the Housing & Development Board (HDB) and homeownership financed through …

Why do Black households live in neighborhoods with much lower socioeconomic status
(SES) than the neighborhoods of white households with similar incomes? The explanation is …