Immigration, Social Outcomes, and Housing Markets
Immigrants and Native Flight: Geographic Extent and Heterogeneous Preferences
The residential segregation of immigrants is not a new phenomenon. However, is it driven by native flight or by immigrants' preferences? If the former, who amongst the native population avoids living with immigrants? Utilizing a matched panel dataset with the universe of individuals and residential properties in Denmark from 1987 through 2017, we conclusively show that the presence of immigrants induces native flight, even in a country with relatively tolerant attitudes.
Local Cultural Roots, Immigrant Settlement, and Economic Outcomes
Research about Hispanics by economists has focused on the assimilation—or lack thereof—of recent immigrants. However, the earliest continued colonial settlement of the USA was Hispanic. This project proposes to study this heritage as a deeply rooted, all-American economic phenomenon.
Send Them Back? The Real Estate Consequences of Repatriations
This project quantifies the impact of an outflow of immigrants on local housing, studying one of the largest ethnically motivated migration shocks in US history, the United States Mexican repatriation of the 1930s. Using a novel automated matching technique to link houses across the 1930 and 1940 Censuses, we show that repatriating Mexicans during the Great Depression had negative consequences for U.S. housing.
