Research

Work in progress

Aging and the Housing Market

As populations age, the demand for housing is changing. In urban areas with a relatively fixed housing supply, older households "aging in place" can exacerbate housing shortages for younger families. This paper examines the impact of an aging population on the distribution of housing in Stockholm’s housing market. Using Swedish administrative data, I estimate a dynamic residential sorting model where households exhibit heterogeneous preferences for housing characteristics and face mobility frictions. I recover households’ willingness to pay for housing size and simulate counterfactual scenarios to quantify the distributional effects of an aging population. I also also evaluate whether reforms to the housing capital gains tax could improve the match between family and house size.

On Gentrification: Renovations of Rental Housing and Socioeconomic Sorting (with Matz Dahlberg and Per-Anders Edin)

Childhood Neighborhood Quality and School Outcomes: How and for Whom do Neighborhoods Matter? (with Matz Dahlberg, Torsten Santavirta, and Yaroslav Yakymovych)

College Major and Location Choices: Evaluating Policies to Enhance Student Mobility (with Petter Berg)