Working Papers
Topic / Demographics
- # 794·Urban form and driving: Evidence from US cities
Gilles Duranton, Matthew A. Turner - # 790·A Renter or Homeowner Nation?
Arthur Acolin, Laurie S. Goodman, Susan M. Wachter - # 788·Urban form and driving: Evidence from U.S. Cities
Gilles Duranton, Matthew A. Turner - # 774·What Drives Nutritional Disparities? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum
Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky, Molly Schnell - # 770·Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira - # 759·Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia
Sam Bazzi, Arya Gaduh, Alex Rothenberg, Maisy Wong - # 744·Unemployment and Unobserved Credit Risk in the FHA Single Family Mortgage Insurance Fund
Joseph Gyourko, Joseph Tracy - # 739·Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities
Jessie Handbury - # 694·Women and Power: Unwilling, Ineffective, or Held Back?
Pablo Casas-Arce, Albert Saiz - # 646·Explaining the United States’ Uniquely Bad Housing Market
Jesse M. Abraham, Andrey D. Pavlov, Susan M. Wachter - # 639·Credit Impairment and Housing Tenure Choice
Paul S. Calem, Simon Firestone, Susan M. Wachter - # 630·City Beautiful
Gerald A. Carlino, Albert Saiz - # 629·Tax Expenditures for Owner-Occupied Housing: Deductions for Property Taxes and Mortgage Interest and the Exclusion of Imputed Rental Income
James Potherb, Todd Sinai - # 628·Income Tax Provisions Affecting Owner-Occupied Housing: Revenue Cost and Incentive Effects
James Potherb, Todd Sinai - # 615·The American Dream? The Private and External Benefits of Home Ownership
Grace Wong - # 611·Tax Expenditures for Owner-Occupied Housing: Deductions for Property Taxes and Mortgage Interest and the Exclusion of Imputed Rental Income
James Potherb, Todd Sinai - # 609·Net Worth and Housing Equity in Retirement
Todd Sinai, Nicholas S. Souleles - # 604·Residential Land Recapitalization: Equity Returns for Debt Risk
Larry Burnett, Caroline Jones, Adam Krug - # 588·Immigrants, Hispanics, and the Evolution of Housing Prices in the US
Albert Saiz - # 583·The Russian Investment Environment
David Skinner - # 582·Real Estate Opportunities and Risks in China
Youguo Liang, M. Shayne Arcilla - # 579·Land-Use Regulation, House Prices and The New Social Contract
Robert Bruegmann - # 577·State Executive/Legislative and Judicial Activities and the Strength of Local Regulation of Residential Housing
David D. Foster, Anita A. Summers - # 572·Forecasting 2020 U.S. County and MSA Populations
Peter Linneman, Albert Saiz - # 567·Status Caste Exchange: Preferences for Race and Poverty Status of Neighbors in Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1970-2000
Janice Fanning Madden - # 563·Be It Ever So Humble: Understanding Housing Using Subjective Well-being Data
Grace Wong - # 557·International Comparison of Housing Risk Premia
Chris Julliard, Grace Wong - # 556·The Pioneering “Levittowner”
Witold Rybczynski - # 549·Forecasting 2020 U.S. County and MSA Populations
Peter Linneman, Albert Saiz - # 548·Superstar Cities
Joseph Gyourko, Christopher J. Mayer, Todd Sinai - # 547·Subprime Lending: Neighborhood Patterns Over Time
Jonathan Hershaff, Susan M. Wachter, Karl Russo - # 546·The Impact of Divorce Laws on Marriage-Specific Capital
Betsey Stevenson - # 541·Nine Causes of Sprawl
Richard K. Green - # 534·A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods
Patrick Bayer, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira, Robert McMillan - # 530·Urban Decline and Durable Housing
Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko - # 529·Looking Back to Look Forward: What Can We Learn About Urban Development from Philadelphia’s 350 Year History?
Joseph Gyourko - # 526·You Can Take It with You: Proposition 13 Tax Benefits, Residential Mobility, and Willingness to Pay for Housing Amenities
Fernando Vendramel Ferreira - # 523·Commitment, Risk, and Consumption: Do Birds of a Feather Have Bigger Nests?
Stephen H. Shore, Todd Sinai - # 521·Do Low-Income Housing Subsidies Increase the Occupied Housing Stock?
Todd Sinai, Joel Waldfogel - # 520·Creative Places
Witold Rybczynski - # 517·Population Changes and the Economy
Janice Fanning Madden - # 512·Current State Legislative and Judicial Profiles on Land-Use Regulations in the U.S.
David D. Foster, Anita A. Summers - # 505·Tiebout Sorting, Social Multipliers, and the Demand for School Quality
Patrick Bayer, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira, Robert McMillan - # 503·Is SARS a Poor Man’s Disease?
Grace Wong - # 502·The Anatomy of a Housing Bubble
Grace Wong - # 501·Has Sars Infected the Property Market?
Maisy Wong - # 497·How Affordable is Affordable Housing?
Witold Rybczynski - # 494·Linkages Between Chinese and Indian Economies and American Real Estate Markets
Anthony Downs - # 492·Land Hungry
Georgette Chapman Poindexter - # 489·Tiebout Sorting, Social Multipliers and the Demand for School Quality
Patrick Bayer, Fernando Vendramel Ferreira, Robert McMillan - # 482·Hitting the Wall: Credit as an Impediment to Homeownership
Raphael W. Bostic, Paul S. Calem, Susan M. Wachter - # 471·Diverging Values and Fundamentals: A Phase or A Transformation?
Charles F. Lowrey - # 446·The Rise of the Skilled City
Edward L. Glaeser, Albert Saiz - # 436·The (Un)Changing Geographical Distribution of Housing Tax Benefits: 1980 to 2000
Todd Sinai, Joseph Gyourko - # 432·Using Home Maintenance and Repairs to Smooth Variable Earnings
Joseph Gyourko, Joseph Tracy - # 426·Legal Do’s and Don’ts for Age-Restricted Communities
Roger D. Winston - # 420·Measuring Sprawl
Witold Rybczynski - # 419·The Activities and Benefits of Smart Growth
Robert W. Burchell, Anthony Downs, Catherine C. Galley, David Listokin - # 417·Why Does Anybody Still Live Here?
Joseph Gyourko, Joseph Tracy - # 409·Managing Metropolitan Futures: The Role of Information Intermediaries
Joseph Ferreira, Andrew Reamer, Susan M. Wachter - # 405·The Impacts Of Affordable Lending Efforts On Homeownership Rates
Roberto G. Quercia, George W. McCarthy, Susan M. Wachter - # 404·The Neighborhood Distribution of Subprime Mortgage Lending
Paul S. Calem, Kevin Gillen, Susan M. Wachter - # 400·Access to Homeownership in the United States: The Impact of Changing Perspectives on Constraints to Tenure Choice
Joseph Gyourko - # 399·The Spatial Distribution of Housing-Related Tax Benefits in the United States
Joseph Gyourko, Todd Sinai - # 398·Measuring Changes in the Spatial Concentration of Income and Poverty Among Suburbs of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Janice Fanning Madden - # 396·The Changing Spatial Concentration of Income and Poverty Among Suburbs of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Janice Fanning Madden - # 394·Do Low Income Housing Subsidies Increase Housing Consumption?
Todd Sinai, Joel Waldfogel - # 382·Urban Decline and Durable Housing
Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko - # 381·Access to Homeownership in the United States:The Impact of Changing Perspectives on Constraints to Tenure Choice
Joseph Gyourko - # 380·Another View of Predatory Lending
Jack Guttentag - # 375·Reversing Philadelphia’s Population Decline
William G. Grigsby - # 374·Their Cities, and Ours
Witold Rybczynski - # 366·Capitalization of Federal Taxes, the Relative Price of Housing, and Urban Form: Density and Sorting Effects
Richard Voith, Joseph Gyourko - # 362·Real Estate Investment Trusts: Retail Sector
John Randall, Alexander Virtue, Ira Weidhorn, Vera Widjaja - # 354·Mixing Income Groups In Public Housing
Brent W. Ambrose, William Grigsby - # 350·A Semiparametric Investigation of Lower-Income Home Mortgage Purchases in the Secondary Mortgage Market
Dapeng Hu - # 333·The Spatial Distribution of Affordable Home Loan Purchases in Major Metropolitan Areas: Documentation and Analysis
Joseph Gyourko, Dapeng Hu - # 332·The Spatial Distribution of Housing-Related Tax Benefits in the United States [2.6MB PDF]
Joseph Gyourko, Todd Sinai - # 329·The Price Elasticity of the Demand for Residential Land
Joseph Gyourko, Richard Voith - # 324·A Look at Real Housing Prices and Incomes: Some Implications for Housing Affordability and Quality
Joseph Gyourko, Joseph Tracy - # 322·Mortgage Terminations, Heterogeneity and the Exercise of Mortgage Options
Yongheng Deng, John M. Quigley, Robert Van Order - # 320·Employment Access, Residential Location and Homeownership
Yongheng Deng, Stephen L. Ross, Susan M. Wachter - # 316·The Differential Impacts of Federally Assisted Housing Programs on Nearby Property Values: A Philadelphia Case Study
Chang Moo-Lee, Dennis P. Culhane, Susan M. Wachter - # 315·Mixed Income Housing Initiatives in Public Housing
Brent W. Ambrose, William Grigsby - # 308·Polarization and Public Housing in the United States
William H. Carter, Michael H. Schill, Susan M. Wachter - # 304·The Impacts of Affordable Lending Efforts on Home Ownership Rates
Roberto G. Quercia, George W. McCarthy, Susan M. Wachter - # 289·The Future of Public Housing
Michael H. Schill, Susan M. Wachter